Жұмыртқа, Бұршақ және Крампеттер: П.Г. Вудхаус әңгімелер жинағы

1940 short story collection by P. G. Wodehouse

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on April 26, 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then with a slightly different content in the United States on May 10, 1940 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Most of the stories feature regular characters: Drones Club member Bingo Little, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge and, in the US edition, Freddie Widgeon and the Oldest Member. The US edition of the book also included "Ukridge and the Home from Home", "The Come back of Battling Billson", and "The Level Business Head" (three more Ukridge stories), which in the UK had already been included in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937). It also included three more Drones Club stories: "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", which was in the UK version of Young Men in Spats (1936), "Bramley Is So Bracing", which would appear to UK readers in Nothing Serious (1950), and "Scratch Man", which would not appear in the UK until A Few Quick Ones (1959). Missing from the US edition were "Romance at Droitgate Spa" and "All's Well with Bingo", which had been included in The Crime Wave at Blandings (1937).

Wodehouse explained the inspiration for the short story "All's Well with Bingo" in a letter written on 12 August 1947 to a fan asking about the inspiration for his writing. Wodehouse responded that when planning a story, he usually decided on which character to incorporate first and then determined the plot, but one exception to this rule was "All's Well with Bingo", a story based on an experience of his own. As Wodehouse wrote in his letter:
<blockquote>I was in the Casino at Le Touquet one night, wandering about and occasionally risking a small sum at one of the tables, and zero came up when I was backing Black, and at the same moment I happened to get into conversation with someone, and it was only some time later that I observed a pile of counters on Black and realized that they were mine. My gratification at scooping in the stuff was heightened by the immediate realization that I had got the core of a story. In the 1920s, Wodehouse visited the real English spa towns Harrogate and later Droitwich. He used background information from these visits when writing several short stories, most notably the short story "Romance at Droitgate Spa".

In the Strand (UK), Gilbert Wilkinson illustrated "All's Well with Bingo", "Bingo and the Peke Crisis", "The Editor Regrets", "Sonny Boy", "Anselm Gets His Chance", and "Romance at Droitgate Spa". Reginald Cleaver illustrated "A Bit of Luck for Mabel", "Buttercup Day", and "Ukridge and the Old Stepper". In the Saturday Evening Post (US), May Wilson Preston illustrated "Bingo and the Peke Crisis", "Anselm Gets His Chance", and "Buttercup Day", James Williamson illustrated "The Editor Regrets" and "Sonny Boy", Earl Blossom illustrated "All's Well with Bingo", James Schucker illustrated "Romance at Droitgate Spa", and Henry Raleigh illustrated "A Bit of Luck for Mabel". "Ukridge and the Old Stepper" was illustrated by C. A. Voight in Liberty. "A Bit of Luck for Mabel" was reprinted, with Raleigh's illustrations, in the Post in March 1977. "All's Well with Bingo" was included in the US edition of The Week End Wodehouse, published in 1939. "All's Well with Bingo" and the Ukridge stories "A Bit of Luck for Mabel", "Buttercup Day", and "Ukridge and the Old Stepper" were featured in the 1960 collection The Most of P. G. Wodehouse. "All's Well with Bingo" and the other Drones Club stories were included in the 1982 collection Tales from the Drones Club. The Ukridge stories in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets were included in The World of Ukridge, published in 1975 by Barrie & Jenkins. The Best of Wodehouse, a 1949 collection of short stories, featured "Sonny Boy". The 1951 anthology The Best of Modern Humor, edited by P. G. Wodehouse and Scott Meredith, included "Sonny Boy", which was the only story by Wodehouse included in the anthology. The story was the only Wodehouse story included in the 1967 anthology A Carnival of Modern Humour, also edited by P. G. Wodehouse and Scott Meredith. "Anselm Gets His Chance" was included in The World of Mr. Mulliner (1972). "Anselm Gets His Chance" and "Romance at Droitgate Spa" were collected in Vintage Wodehouse (1978). "Anselm Gets His Chance" and "Buttercup Day" were included in The World of Wodehouse Clergy (1984). "Romance at Droitgate Spa" was translated into Swedish by Vilgot Hammarling and published in the Swedish magazine Vårt Hem in July 1937. The Swedish translation was also included in the Wodehouse short story collection Bland lorder och drönare, published in 2011. An introduction with Mr Mulliner was added to the version of "Romance at Droitgate Spa" in the US collection The Crime Wave at Blandings. This version of the story was not included in any other collection, including the 1972 Mulliner omnibus The World of Mulliner. During World War II, while imprisoned in an internment camp in the town of Tost as a British civilian arrested in German occupied France, Wodehouse contributed an abridged story based on "All's Well with Bingo" to the internee's newspaper, the Tost Times. As a light hearted story, it was meant to make his fellow internees laugh. The story appeared in an edition of the Tost Times dated 1 June 1941.

"Buttercup Day" was adapted into an episode of the television series The World of Wodehouse in 1968. "The Editor Regrets", "Anselm Gets His Chance", and "Romance at Droitgate Spa" were adapted as episodes of the television series Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978).