Psmith, Journalist

By P. G. Wodehouse

The story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers, and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-harted works.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Mar 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781625585110

P. G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) nació en Surrey. Tras trabajar un tiempo como periodista en Inglaterra, se trasladó a los Estados Unidos. Escribió numerosas obras de teatro y comedias musicales, y más de noventa novelas. Creador de personajes inolvidables -Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, su tía Agatha, Ukridge, Psmith, Lord Emsworth, los lechuguinos del Club de los Zánganos, y tantos otros, sus obras se reeditan continuamente, como corresponde a uno de los grandes humoristas del siglo.

Reviews for Psmith, Journalist

[rajivc_18 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I honestly cannot say that I was overly enthused by this book. While indeed Psmith continues his exploits, and this book sees less of Mike, the exploits in New York are less than fulfilling. This, in my view, is a bit of a surprise, because PG Wodehouse generally does not fail to deliver the goods. The book, describing Smith's exploits as a sub-editor seem, to me, to be a little over the top and the end seems to be a bit of an anti-climax. Still, PG was a brilliant writer....

[lirmac-2 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Psmith, Wodehouse's quintessentially English aesthete, is unleashed in New York City; fish-out-of-water shenanigans in the style of 1980s cinema do not ensue. The fit is awkward and never satisfies as much as Bertie Wooster's later antics in the Big Apple. One feels that Wodehouse wanted a change of scene from the London/country house circuit, but his vision of New York reads somewhat like lesser Damon Runyon. This is still Wodehouse, so it is still excellent, but even Homer nods.

[leslie398 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Psuke Bariah did a very good narration of this 3rd book in the Psmith series. In this one, Psmith's friend Mike is on the fringes of the story; Mike's cricket team has come to the U.S. and Psmith has accompanied him but is at rather loose ends in New York City while Mike is away playing. He befriends a young newspaper man and gets interested in journalism. While Psmith is his typical self, this entry in the series has more obvious social commentary than most Wodehouse books and less silliness. I find it a bit sad that many of the problems described in this book still exist over 100 years later -- gangs, slums, corruption...

[wonderperson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good jolly story.

[mstrust · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

While visiting New York, Englishman Psmith meets young Billy Windsor, who has just been left in charge of Cosy Moments, a sentimental little paper with a small readership. With both the owner and editor away for weeks, Psmith steps in and persuades Billy to give the paper a complete overhaul, doing away with the coziness and instead focusing on investigative journalism and boxing stories. By publishing a series of articles about the conditions of a particular tenement slum, the two writers bring themselves into a gang war and are targets for multiple murder attempts, but Psmith never loses his cheerful manner and verbosity.

[leandrod-2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

New York turn of ðe century gangs & ſlums under an Engliſh eye. A few Deus ex machina ſituations, but quite enternatainiŋ & even informative.

[philsyphe · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This third installment of Psmith’s life and times takes him to America, where he takes up thetemporary job of “Cosy Moments’” subeditor whilst dodging bullets from members of various gangs,who dislike certain articles printed in said newspaper.Must say, this isn’t one of PG Wodehouse’s finest tomes, but was still worth checking out. Like withthe second book featuring Psmith (“Psmith in the City”), this third one doesn’t live up to theentertainment value as displayed in the first novel (“Mike”).While in “Mike” Psmith was by far the most amusing character, in the two subsequent works hebecomes less funny and more annoying, mainly through too many overlong monologues. Theseelongated speeches lose some of the sharp wit apparent in “Mike”.That said, he’s still the best character in the tale, just not up the high standard of his first appearance.

[bjace_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Psmith journalist is an odd item in the Wodehouse canon. During a summer in New York, Psmith becomes a temporary employee of a New York weekly and he becomes involved in trying to right social ills in the face of resistance from New York's criminal element. Because it's Wodehouse, the story is mostly played for laughs and Wodehouse has fun creating a cat-loving tough and some other varied bad guys, but it's somewhat odd finding a social conscience in the midst of Wodehouse's usual foolery.

[mrtall_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Psmith travels to New York, latches on at Cozy Moments, a sleepy little weekly, and transforms it into a muck-raking, philo-pugilistic scandal sheet. It’s all great fun, with the usual high-jinks all around, but also a measure of actual commentary on the social ills of the day, i.e. life in the Big Apple’s notorious tenements and threats from gangland thugs.