1st book of the Ukridge series
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Stanley Ukridge ensnares the narrator in another one of his schemes: running a chicken farm in the English countryside.
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Wodehouse once described his writing as "musical comedy without music," and Love Among the Chickens is one of the earliest examples of his trademark style. The narrator, Jeremy Garnet, is a mild-mannered author attempting to finish his next novel in peace and quiet. Enter Stanley Ukridge, a man brimming with endless schemes, who draws the narrator into his latest, "the idea of a lifetime" - running a chicken farm.
I: A Letter with a Postscript
II: Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Ukridge
III: Waterloo Station, Some Fellow-Travellers, and a Girl with Brown Hair
IV: The Arrival
V: Buckling To
VI: Mr. Garnet's Narrative - Has to Do with a Reunion
VII: The Entente Cordiale Is Sealed
VIII: A Little Dinner at Ukridge's
IX: Dies Irae
X: I Enlist the Services of a Minion
XI: The Brave Preserver
XII: Some Emotions and Yellow Lupin
XIII: Tea and Tennis
XIV: A Council of War
XV: The Arrival of Nemesis
XVI: A Chance Meeting
XVII: Of a Sentimental Nature
XVIII: Ukridge Gives Me Advice
XIX: Asking Papa
XX: Scientific Golf
XXI: The Calm Before the Storm
XXII: The Storm Breaks
XXIII: After the Storm