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The Luck Stone

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Ian looks at the final public school novel by Wodehouse, a lurid adventure story called The Luck Stone, first published in Chums magazine from 1908 to 1909 under the pseudonym "Basil Windham". It was first published in book form posthumously in 1997. There will be spoilers.


The story can be read here


Content note: national stereotyping, imperialism, racism.


Other Wodehouse works mentioned:

Performing Flea

Mike at Wrykyn

Mike and Psmith

The Head of Kays

Little Nugget

Psmith Journalist

"The Man Who Disliked Cats"

"Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch"

"The Metropolitan Touch"

The Mating Season

Not George Washington


Other books mentioned

Sophie Ratcliffe, ed., P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Richard Usbourne, Wodehouse at Work to the end

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

F. Anstey, Baboo Jabberjee

Frank Richards, The Greyfriars stories


Also mentioned:

Dennis the Menace/The Bash Street Kids (The Beano)

William Townend

Herbert Westbrook

Anthony Home

Lord Roberts


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ian looks at the final public school novel by Wodehouse, a lurid adventure story called The Luck Stone, first published in Chums magazine from 1908 to 1909 under the pseudonym "Basil Windham". It was first published in book form posthumously in 1997. There will be spoilers.


The story can be read here


Content note: national stereotyping, imperialism, racism.


Other Wodehouse works mentioned:

Performing Flea

Mike at Wrykyn

Mike and Psmith

The Head of Kays

Little Nugget

Psmith Journalist

"The Man Who Disliked Cats"

"Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch"

"The Metropolitan Touch"

The Mating Season

Not George Washington


Other books mentioned

Sophie Ratcliffe, ed., P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Richard Usbourne, Wodehouse at Work to the end

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

F. Anstey, Baboo Jabberjee

Frank Richards, The Greyfriars stories


Also mentioned:

Dennis the Menace/The Bash Street Kids (The Beano)

William Townend

Herbert Westbrook

Anthony Home

Lord Roberts


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  continue reading

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