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The Novels of P.G. Wodehouse (Thirty Three Books with active table of contents)

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This volume of Wodehouse novels is a fantastic bargain. It has some of the US and Brit releases and while it duplicates some of the other offerings in other Wodehouse collections, it costs only ninety nine cents to get all of these great novels on your kindle. It is certainly worth the minimal investment. You will see how Wodehouse hones his writing over his long career as these novels span his entire productive life. Enjoy the odd, eccentric and just plain nutso characters that inhabit Wodehouse's world.

P.G. Wodehouse is always great to read, but I found the typeface on this version is difficult to read, much messier than other Kindle versions. Great books, but poor choice of typeface.

This is a good selection of early, public domain Wodehouse titles.

The problem lies in the poor formatting. First, as others have pointed out, the texts are in a non-standard font that looks like an old IBM typewriter font.

Secondly, although there is a table of contents to take you to each book by title, there are no functioning tables of contents within each book. There is a chapter list, but no links to take you right to the chapter you want, which is sub-standard.

Thirdly, there are spelling errors which probably entered through poor scanning.

Do yourself a favor and hunt for a different Kindle version where the producers have taken time to format the books properly for Kindle enjoyment!

I'm in the process of reading this book and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. In the past I have read old books that were humorous at the time they were written but lost most of the humor over the years. That's not the case with these stories. P.G. Wodehouse makes me laugh out loud. I can think of no higher praise.

I you like clever, intelligent language and have a sharp sense of humor, you must read Wodehouse. He's the guy who created the Jeeves character, and he wrote tons of Jeeves stories (I'm not sure how many of them are in this collection but there are some). And the stories not involving Jeeves are also a hoot.

Here's a little quote from one of the stories in this collection:

"Still, he could balance himself with one hand on an inverted ginger-ale bottle while revolving a barrel on the soles of his feet. There is good in all of us."

From "The Adventures of Sally" by P.G. Wodehouse

One drawback is that I'm pretty sure this collection was created from that project that takes out-of-copyright books and "publishes" them -- Project Gutenberg ( [...] ), whose website says "Our free books were previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers." And it shows - there is the occasional apparent transcription error that leaves you wondering if the typist got it right. But mostly they seem accurate. It's just a bit annoying when you stumble upon some wording that isn't quite right, and you just know that the master couldn't have written it that way.

The misleading title makes it look as if this is a complete collection of Wodehouse works. It is just a very small collection of early public domain titles. I am surprised Amazon allows misleading titles.