Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

, first published on 1 October 1997 by Porpoise Books, London

London

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 with illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell. It contains previously uncollected work, most of the stories having first appeared in the schoolboy's magazine

Magazine

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s such as The Captain

The Captain (1900s magazine)

The Captain was a magazine for young boys, published monthly in the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1924.It is perhaps best known for printing many of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories, such as many of those featured in the collection Tales of St. Austin's...

and Public School Magazine

Public School Magazine

Public School Magazine was a short-lived magazine for young boys. It was started in 1898 by publishers Adam and Charles Black and appeared monthly until March 1902, when it ceased publication, the copyright being sold to rival publisher George Newnes, who had in the meantime founded his own...

.

Contents

Listed alphabetically, with details of first publication and subsequent repeat appearances:

• "The Adventure of the Split Infinitive"
  • Public School Magazine
    Public School Magazine
    Public School Magazine was a short-lived magazine for young boys. It was started in 1898 by publishers Adam and Charles Black and appeared monthly until March 1902, when it ceased publication, the copyright being sold to rival publisher George Newnes, who had in the meantime founded his own...
    
    , March 1902
• "An Affair of Boats"
  • The Captain
    The Captain (1900s magazine)
    The Captain was a magazine for young boys, published monthly in the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1924.It is perhaps best known for printing many of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories, such as many of those featured in the collection Tales of St. Austin's...
    
    , July 1905
• "An Afternoon Dip"
  • Pearson's
    Pearson's Magazine
    Pearson's Magazine was an influential publication which first appeared in Britain in 1896. It specialised in speculative literature, political discussion, often of a socialist bent, and the arts. Its contributors included Upton Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, Maxim Gorky and H. G...
    
    , October 1904
    • Greyfriars Holiday Annual, 1925 (as "Jackson's Dip")
• "The Autograph Hunters"
  • Pearson's, February 1905
• "Blenkinsop's Benefit"
  • The Captain, August 1904
• "A Corner in Lines"
  • The Captain, January 1905
• "The Deserter"
  • Royal
    The Royal Magazine
    The Royal Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine that was published between 1898 and 1939. Its founder and publisher was Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet....
    
    , August 1905
• "A Division of Spoil"
  • The Captain, September 1906
• "Educating Aubrey"
  • London Magazine, September 1911
• "The Guardian"
  • Windsor
    Windsor Magazine
    The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939 .The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women"....
    
    , September 1908
• "Homeopathic Treatment
  • Royal, August 1904
• "An International Affair"
  • The Captain, September 1905
• "Jackson's Extra"
  • Royal, June 1904
• "Last Place
  Last place
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  • The Captain, August 1905
• "Personally Conducted"
  • Cassell's, July 1907
• "Pillingshot, Detective"
  • The Captain, September 1910
• "Pillingshot's Paper"
  • The Captain, February 1911
• "Playing the Game"
  • Pearson's, May 1906
    • Greyfriars Holiday Annual, 1924 (as "Scott's Sister")
• "The Politeness of Princes
  The Politeness of Princes
  "The Politeness of Princes" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the July 1902 issue of The Captain...
  
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  • The Captain, May 1905
• "The Reformation of Study Sixteen"
  • Royal, November 1911
• "Ruthless Reginald"
  • The Captain, April 1904
• "Shields' and the Cricket Cup"
  • The Captain, June 1905
• "Stone and the Weed"
  • The Captain, June 1905
    • Boy's Life, August 1923/March 1936/March 1971
• "The Strange Disappearance of Mr. Buxton-Smythe"
  • Public School Magazine, December 1901
• "Welch's Mile Record"
  • The Captain, November 1911

Several of the stories had previously seen publication in the U.S.

United States

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 in the collections The Uncollected Wodehouse

The Uncollected Wodehouse

The Uncollected Wodehouse is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United States on November 9, 1976 by Seabury, New York, it contains 14 short stories, five of which had appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1914 collection The Man Upstairs. All had previously...

(1976) and The Swoop! and Other Stories

The Swoop! and Other Stories

The Swoop! and Other Stories is a collection of early short stories and a novella by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on April 11, 1979 by The Seabury Press, New York, four years after Wodehouse's death....

(1979).

External links

• A 1997 article on the book from the Spectator