num_pages: 153
description: The farcical tale of Jeremy Garnet, an author and an old friend of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, an erstwhile chicken farmer. Upon meeting Ukridge for the first time in years, Garnet finds himself enmeshed Ukridge's new and struggling chicken farm. Garnet soon falls in love with a girl living near the estate as he struggles with the farm and with Ukridge's bizarre business methods.Written when he was 25, Love Among the Chickens launched P.G. Wodehouse's career as a novelist and introduced the world to Ukridge, one of his most extraordinary inventions. Robert McCrum's introduction shows how this fascinating early book holds within it so many of the themes which Wodehouse was to make his own. This edition uses Wodehouse's 1920 revised edition of the 1906 original.
language: English
title: Love Among the Chickens
titlecomplete: Love Among the Chickens (Ukridge, #1)
characters: Lickford, Mrs. Beale, Elizabeth Lakenheath, Vickers, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, Phyllis Derrick, Mr. Beale, Jane Muspratt, Harry Hawk, Tom Chase, Dawlish, Curtis, Millie Ukridge, Albert, Norah Derrick, Edwin, Mrs. Medly, Mr. Hill, Aunty, Farmer Leigh, Bob (Love Among Chickens), Mrs. Minchley, Molly McEachern, Kathleen O'Brien, Jeremy Garnet, Patrick Derrick, Smith
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Classics, British Literature, Comedy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3949
places: United Kingdom, Dorset, England
series: Ukridge
publisher: Penguin