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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. Narrator Jeremy Garnet finds himself reluctantly swept into his old friend Ukridge's latest scheme: running a chicken farm in Dorset. What follows is a comedy of errors mixing disastrous poultry management with romance, as Garnet falls for the neighboring professor's daughter while navigating social mishaps, jealous rivals, and Ukridge's increasingly absurd business plans. Can Garnet win both love and the professor's blessing amid the chaos?

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  • Humorous stories
  • England
  • Farm life
  • Chicken breeders
  • Ukridge, Stanley Featherstonehaugh (Fictitious character)

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Chapter I

A LETTER WITH A POSTSCRIPT

"A gentleman called to see you when you were out last night, sir," said Mrs. Medley, my landlady, removing the last of the breakfast things.

"Yes?" I said, in my affable way.

"A gentleman," said Mrs. Medley meditatively, "with a very powerful voice."

"Caruso?"

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Contents

  1. Front Matter
  2. Chapter I
  3. Chapter II
  4. Chapter III: Waterloo Station, Some Fellow-Travellers, and a Girl with Brown Hair
  5. Chapter IV
  6. Chapter V
  7. Chapter VI
  8. Chapter VII
  9. Chapter VIII
  10. Chapter IX
  11. Chapter X
  12. Chapter XI
  13. Chapter XII
  14. Chapter XIII
  15. Chapter XIV
  16. Chapter XV
  17. Chapter XVI
  18. Chapter XVII
  19. Chapter XVIII
  20. Chapter XIX
  21. Chapter XX
  22. Chapter XXI
  23. Chapter XXII
  24. Chapter XXIII

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About this edition

This free edition of Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #3829, released 2003-03-01. 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: Romance, Humour, Novels, British Literature.

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