Mike and Psmith

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  • An
  • early
  • Wodehouse
  • novel,
  • this
  • is
  • both
  • a
  • sporting
  • story
  • and
  • a
  • tale
  • of
  • friendship
  • between
  • two
  • boys
  • at
  • boarding
  • school.
  • Mike
  • (introduced
  • in
  • Mike
  • at
  • Wrykyn)
  • is
  • a
  • seriously
  • good
  • cricketer
  • who
  • forms
  • an
  • unlikely
  • alliance
  • with
  • old
  • Etonian
  • Psmith
  • ('the
  • P
  • is
  • silent')
  • after
  • they
  • both
  • find
  • themselves
  • fish
  • out
  • of
  • water
  • at
  • a
  • new
  • school,
  • Sedleigh.
  • Full
  • of
  • entertainment,
  • the
  • plot
  • reaches
  • a
  • satisfying
  • conclusion
  • as
  • the
  • pair
  • eventually
  • overcome
  • the
  • hostility
  • of
  • others
  • and
  • their
  • own
  • prejudices
  • to
  • become
  • stars.
  • Even
  • readers
  • uninterested
  • in
  • cricket
  • are
  • likely
  • to
  • be
  • gripped
  • by
  • descriptions
  • of
  • matches,
  • but
  • the
  • real
  • meat
  • of
  • the
  • book
  • is
  • to
  • be
  • found
  • in
  • the
  • characters,
  • especially
  • the
  • elegant
  • Psmith,
  • one
  • of
  • Wodehouse's
  • immortal
  • creations,
  • who
  • features
  • in
  • three
  • of
  • his
  • later novels.
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