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The Man Upstairs

P. G. Wodehouse

The Man Upstairs

Original publication
1914
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
612
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Humor
Translated from
English

Book summary

A collection of nineteen comic short stories published in 1914. In the first, which gives the book its title, Annette Brougham, a young pianist composing a waltz in Chelsea, London, goes upstairs to complain to her neighbor, a painter who knocks on the floor whenever she plays. The other stories range from English country houses to New York, with awkward lovers, a dreaded butler, an exceptional swimmer and even a knight of the Round Table. Light, whimsical humor throughout.

The plot

A London girl, a golfer and a clerk. In London, Sally loves the cinema. To keep her away from it, her very strict father sends her to her aunt’s, in a very quiet village by the sea.

The world of the book

London, New York and France, around 1910. The stories take place in London, in the English countryside, in New York, in Paris and by the sea in the south of France.

The author

Bank clerk by day, writer by night. At 18, he became a clerk in a London bank. The work bored him. In the evening, in his room in the Chelsea district, he wrote funny stories for magazines. Two years later, he left the…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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