P. G. Wodehouse

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Mike Jackson, a Wrykyn‑trained batsman, is cajoled into Outwood’s cricket side and turns matches by prodigious innings (including a match‑defining 277), provoking house rivalry and admiration.
A midnight errand to pay a friend’s debt results in a paint‑splashed boot and the school dog Sampson being daubed red; Downing’s investigation briefly incriminates Mike and Psmith (the latter falsely confessing to protect him) until Dunster admits the prank.
Matters settle: Mike agrees to play for Sedleigh (with Psmith), friendships and tensions are reconciled, and Sedleigh records a notable win over Wrykyn.

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Ukridge, intent on marrying Millie, schemes to secure Lady Lakenheath’s consent by staging the parrot Leonard’s "return" and by intercepting a speech that would bring his aunt and Lady Lakenheath’s acquaintance together. Corcoran reluctantly assists but is thwarted when Miss Julia Ukridge unexpectedly returns, making the planned theft impossible. By chance Leonard is dosed with Ukridge’s restorative "Peppo," becomes indisposed and keeps Lady Lakenheath at home, thereby averting the auntly meeting and clinching Ukridge’s engagement.

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Jimmy Crocker adopts a false name (Bayliss) to court Ann and engineers a plot in which his father poses as the kidnapper "Chicago Ed." to spirit away Ogden Ford. A nocturnal mêlée—featuring Lord Wisbeach attempting to steal Willie Partridge’s explosive, Miss Trimble the detective, and a dog that precipitates the harmless destruction of a test‑tube bomb—exposes impostors and unravels the schemes. Identities are revealed, domestic quarrels are settled (Mr. Crocker elects to stay in America), and Jimmy and Ann reconcile, agreeing to "bury the dead past."

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George Emerson confesses his love and Aline, shaken and pitying him, breaks her engagement and elopes with Emerson.
Ashe Marson deduces that Freddie, pressed by a blackmailer (Jones), stole Lord Emsworth's scarab, recovers it and exposes the fraud.
Mr. Peters gratefully rewards Ashe (even offers him a post); Joan accepts Ashe's proposal; Freddie is forgiven and relieved.

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At a noisy Broadway dance-hall Sally, exhausted and seeking escape, accepts Bruce Carmyle's proposal but remains conflicted. Bruce's discovery of her work as a dancer and the disreputable episode with Gerald Foster precipitate the engagement's collapse while Ginger returns and confesses his love. Sally ultimately chooses and marries Ginger; they settle into a contented country life.

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A collection of comic short stories in which golf catalyses romantic entanglements, rivalries, and social satire.
Characters’ virtues and vices—obsession, loquacity, timidity—are tested by the game, often with farcical consequences.
Wodehousian humour turns golfing mishaps into brief moral lessons, reconciliations, and social commentary.

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Samuel Marlowe falls for Wilhelmina “Billie” Bennett aboard the R.M.S. Atlantic and is drawn into rivalry with Bream Mortimer and the ill‑starred cousin Eustace Hignett.
A string of comic incidents—a harbour rescue, a calamitous ship’s concert, family quarrels over the Windles tenancy and a bungled dog‑abduction scheme—produces misunderstandings and broken engagements.
After farcical confrontations at Windles and a midnight motoring escapade, Sam and Billie reconcile and plan to marry.

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Jill, penniless, takes a place in the chorus of a New York musical whose rehearsals mutate into rewrites, firings and a chorus strike she instigates to save a colleague.
Wally Mason declares his love and, after Jill wrestles with lingering feelings for Derek Underhill, she ultimately accepts him.
Derek returns but balks at marrying a chorus‑girl for social reasons, while Uncle Chris’s covert financing (buying Pilkington’s share) and other interventions complicate the theatrical and social situation.

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Anthology of comic short stories portraying romantic entanglements and social pretences across varied settings (New York offices, Monte Carlo, London, medieval Camelot); protagonists confront ambition, class friction, mistaken identity and ethical slips that produce farcical reversals; economical, ironic prose emphasizes character-driven satire and situational comedy.

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Henry's attempt to surprise Minnie by dancing disastrously fails and leaves him humiliated. Minnie, who had seen him at the dance school and briefly suspected infidelity, reveals she used to be a dance instructress and actually dislikes dancing. The misunderstanding is cleared up and they reconcile tenderly, sitting together while Henry reads from the encyclopaedia.

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Mr. Scobell, visibly moved, gives his blessing to John and Betty's plan, removing the last obstacle. Smith, on his inaugural visit to the ranch, concludes John chose wisely and reflects nostalgically on friends and the newspaper while enjoying the prairie night. He falls asleep on the porch; Betty and John share a quiet, intimate moment to the sound of a distant guitar.