Psmith in the City

Mike Jackson expects Cambridge and a life of cricket until his father’s money vanishes, and instead he lands behind a desk at the New Asiatic Bank in London. The one consolation is his old schoolfriend Psmith, an unflappable dandy who treats the whole grim business of employment as raw material for amusement. Together they turn the tedium of ledgers and the bullying of their pompous manager, Bickersdyke, into a running campaign of quiet mischief. First written for schoolboy readers, this early novel moves Psmith off the cricket field and into the adult working world, and it already carries the easy comic timing that would define Wodehouse’s later work. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.