The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories

The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories is a collection of early short stories and a novella by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on September 1, 1980 by Continuum, New York City, five years after Wodehouse's death.

First edition

The collection was edited and introduced by one of Wodehouse's biographers, David A. Jasen. The stories had all previously appeared in magazines, and William Tell Told Again (a retelling of the William Tell legend) was published as an illustrated book in the United Kingdom in 1904.

Contents

• "The Eighteen-Carat Kid"
  • UK: The Captain, January 3, 1913
• "The Wire-Pullers" (starring Joan Romney)
  • UK: Strand, July 1905
  • US: Strand (US), August 1905
• "The Prize Poem" (A school story, which appeared in the UK collection Tales of St. Austin's)
  • UK: Public School Magazine, July 1901
• William Tell Told Again
• "Epilogue"

See also

• A categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

External links

• Works by P. G. Wodehouse in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
  • An omnibus collection of Jeeves short stories at Standard Ebooks
  • An omnibus collection of school stories at Standard Ebooks
  • An omnibus collection of Ukridge short stories at Standard Ebooks
  • An omnibus collection of Wodehouse's other short fiction at Standard Ebooks
• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page