Leave It to Psmith
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4.6 • 23 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"P.G. Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to have put words on paper." —Hugh Laurie
Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers her an umbrella, even though it’s one he picks out of the Drone Club’s umbrella rack. Psmith is so besotted with Eve that, when Lord Emsworth, her new boss, mistakes him for Ralston McTodd, a poet, Psmith pretends to be him so he can make his way to Blandings Castle and woo her. And so the farce begins: criminals disguised as poets with a plan to steal a priceless diamond necklace, a secretary who throws flower pots through windows, and a nighttime heist that ends in gunplay. How will everything be sorted out? Leave it to Psmith!
Customer Reviews
His Best So Far, But Better Still To Come
I largely agree with the Amazon reviews by Paul Donovan and A Customer, and must disagree with one of my own, of _Something Fresh_, published in 1915. I said (agreeing with some critics) that that book marked the start of Sir Pelham’s mature period; but the writing eight years later in _Leave It to Psmith_ is far more finely-wrought than anything he had done before. (This is highlighted by what was lost in the quite good BBC radio dramatization of the book starring Sir John Gielgud.) It is the finest of the Psmith books, which is saying something, and the best of the Blandings books so far. But I must respectfully disagree with A Customer; when watching the magnificent BBC TV adaptation of _Heavy Weather_ with Peter O'Toole as Lord Emsworth, I reread the opening of that book. Wodehouse’s writing ten years later was at an even higher level; I look forward to rereading it and reviewing it here (on current form, in about AD 2021.)
Laugh Out Loud with a Bonus of Sweet Romance
I laughed out loud more than once reading this. Just the way PG Wodehouse words things is even more hilarious than the situations he puts his characters in, what?
Leave it to Psmith
Excellent comedic writing by Wodehouse...EAF