Not George Washington by P. G. Wodehouse ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

Not George Washington by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Before Jeeves, before Blandings, P. G. Wodehouse turned his comic eye on the making of a writer. Co-written with Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington follows James Orlebar Cloyster, a mild-mannered young man with big literary ambitions and a talent for presenting himself as far more upright than his actions suggest. Through a brisk, multi-voiced narrative, we watch Cloyster navigate early jobs, journalistic hustle, and the temptations of quick success in London, while his romantic entanglement with Margaret Goodwin adds both warmth and complication to his plans. As friends, rivals, and would-be benefactors tell their sides of the story, the picture that emerges is less a heroic rise than a wry study of how reputation is manufactured - and how easily people bend the truth when applause, money, or simple gratification is at stake. Part lightly fictionalized memoir and part satire of literary posturing, this early Wodehouse novel sparkles with sharp social observation, playful shifts in perspective, and a central question: what does it really take to become somebody, if you are not exactly George Washington?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:00) Chapter 02

(00:20:59) Chapter 03

(00:32:57) Chapter 04

(00:45:30) Chapter 05

(00:56:05) Chapter 06

(01:07:00) Chapter 07

(01:16:43) Chapter 08

(01:26:07) Chapter 09

(01:35:30) Chapter 10

(01:46:35) Chapter 11

(02:00:54) Chapter 12

(02:14:51) Chapter 13

(02:30:56) Chapter 14

(02:38:58) Chapter 15

(02:45:43) Chapter 16

(02:52:04) Chapter 17

(02:58:33) Chapter 18

(03:11:07) Chapter 19

(03:21:15) Chapter 20

(03:40:27) Chapter 21

(03:46:54) Chapter 22

(03:58:43) Chapter 23

(04:08:29) Chapter 24

(04:19:49) Chapter 25

(04:29:46) Chapter 26

(04:39:05) Chapter 27

(04:48:23) Chapter 28

(04:59:31) Chapter 29

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