Love Among the Chickens
by P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
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- 3 hours to read
- 24 chapters
- Reading level: 6th grade
"Love Among the Chickens" by P. G. Wodehouse is a novel first published in 1906. When narrator Jeremy Garnet reconnects with his old friend Ukridge, he's swept into a disastrous venture: a chicken farm in Dorset run on questionable business principles. While Ukridge's schemes spiral into chaos, Garnet falls for Phyllis, the daughter of their irascible Irish neighbor. Between escaped hens, brewing creditors, and a father who despises him, Garnet must navigate comic catastrophe to win his beloved's hand.
- Humorous stories
- England
- Farm life
- Chicken breeders
- Ukridge, Stanley Featherstonehaugh (Fictitious character)
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Chapter I
Mr. Jeremy Garnet stood with his back to the empty grate—for the time was summer—watching with a jaundiced eye the removal of his breakfast things.
"Mrs. Medley," he said.
"Sir?"
"Would it bore you if I became auto-biographical?"
"Sir?"
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This free edition of Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #20532, released 2007-02-06. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Humour, Novels, British Literature.
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