Love among the Chickens, P. G. Wodehouse
Love among the Chickens, P. G. Wodehouse
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Love among the Chickens

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Jonathan Cecil

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2011

Synopsis

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious chickens, irascible professors, angry creditors, and divided lovers.

About P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in 1975.

About Jonathan Cecil

Jonathan Cecil (1939–2011) was a vastly experienced actor, appearing at Shakespeare’s Globe as well as in such West End productions as The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, and The Bed before Yesterday. He toured in The Incomparable Max, Twelfth Night, and An Ideal Husband, while among his considerable television and film appearances were The Rector’s Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on November 04, 2024

Bok, bok, bok! An author gets hauled along for a wacky ride when his friend decides to become a chicken farmer and sell the eggs. Ukridge is an idiot with idiot ideas. He thinks his chicken farm will be a money maker because he'll borrow the initial chickens, then return them once he's got his own fl......more

Goodreads review by Diamond on January 23, 2023

This is a very humorous story about two friends trying to run a chicken ranch. They are definately not equipt for the task. I recommend this book to all who need a laugh.......more

Goodreads review by Marty on April 02, 2009

With each book of Wodehouse's that I finish, it is always with a little bit of regret. Even though P.G. Wodehouse is attributed to over a hundred published works, I've still got quite a bit of my life ahead of me, and it will be a sad day indeed when I've run out of fresh Wodehouse books to read. Oh......more

Goodreads review by Evan on December 29, 2016

Love Among the Chickens represented Wodehouse’s first foray into adult fiction. Prior to Chickens, Wodehouse had focused on children’s or young adult literature, mostly “school stories” set in English boarding schools. These were often humorous, but one couldn’t help but feel like Wodehouse was hold......more

Quotes

“Please listen to this book at home, while walking or lazing about on the patio or veranda. Do not listen while operating motorized equipment because you’ll laugh too hard and could cause an accident…Cecil is bursting with characters large and small, male and female, pompous and clueless, and he reads with an all-encompassing energy that is both infectious and satisfying.” AudioFile

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