Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere

Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 1 October 1997 by Porpoise Books, London with illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell. It contains previously uncollected work, most of the stories having first appeared in the schoolboy's magazines such as The Captain and Public School Magazine. It was reprinted by Everyman in 2014.

Contents

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

• "The Adventure of the Split Infinitive"
  • Public School Magazine, March 1902
• "An Affair of Boats"
  • The Captain, July 1905
• "An Afternoon Dip"
  • Pearson's, 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, August 1905
• "A Division of Spoil"
  • The Captain, September 1906
• "Educating Aubrey"
  • London Magazine, September 1911
• "The Guardian"
  • Windsor, September 1908
• "Homeopathic Treatment
  • Royal, August 1904
• "An International Affair"
  • The Captain, September 1905
• "Jackson's Extra"
  • Royal, June 1904
• "Last Place"
  • 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 Captain, May 1905
• "The Reformation of Study Sixteen"
  • Royal, November 1904
• "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. in the collections The Uncollected Wodehouse (1976) and The Swoop! and Other Stories (1979).

References

• Midkiff, Neil. "The Wodehouse short stories". "Neil Midkiff's P. G. Wodehouse pages". Retrieved 2009-06-29.

External links

• A 1997 article on the book from the Spectator