Wodehouse shelved 23 times as pgwodehouse avg rating 4. Ive read quite a few other english authors, but in my opinion, no one comes as close to wodehouse as the marathi author, p. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the novels of p. The clicking of cuthbert gutenberg text wodehouse, p. Wodehouse, by series, in alphabetical order by series name. One of them, bring on the girls, describes wodehouses time as a lyricist, and in hollywood when he worked with musical producers guy bolton and jerome kern. Please take some time to read stephen frys full article where he describes his love for wodehouse and how much his books influenced him. Even if you havent read a wodehouse book, this article will convince you to pick one right away. Wodehouse quotes will lighten your mood and brighten your day. Born in guildford, the third son of a british magistrate based in hong kong, wodehouse spent happy teenage years at dulwich. It is set in a timeless england, somewhen between the wars.
Initially in chronological order by uk publication date, even when the book was published first in the us or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form. Summer lightning is a detective story crossed with a romantic farce. The jeeves canon consists of 35 short stories and 11 novels. In addition to his humorous novels and stories, wodehouse collaborated with guy bolton in writing several popular broadway musicals, notably sally 1920, sitting pretty 1924, anything goes 1934, and bring on the girls 1954. Having spent his early years in hong kong he was sent to dulwich college and worked as a banker and journalist before embarking on a career as a prolific and popular writer.
To get your daily dosage of wodehouse quotes, please consider following our account wodehouse tweets on twitter which has over 9,000 followers. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in france and the united states, wodehouses main canvas remained that of prewar english upperclass society, reflecting his birth, education, and. With minor exceptions, the short stories were written and published first between 1915 and 1930. Wodehouse penned close to 100 books in his prolific career. Wodehouse is timeless, as shown by the search engine now called that was named after his most famous valet gentlemans gentleman. Wodehouse 18811975 when the absentminded earl of emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, american millionaire j. The concept which eventually became jeeves actually preceded bertie in wodehouses imagination. Wodehouse discussing jeeves and wooster 1960s interview. In addition to wodehouses best known and beloved jeeves and bertie stories, the most of p. Pg wodehouse october 15, 1881 february 14, 1975 pelham grenville wodehouse, or plum to his friends, was an enormously popular comic novelist with a career spanning more than 70 years. Mulliner, whose considered judgment on any and all topics is drawn from the experiences of his innumerable relatives.
Ive read probably twenty of wodehouses books of fictiona number. Wodehouse, including the code of the woosters, and right ho, jeeves, and more on. Sir pelham grenville wodehouse 18811975 was a prolific english writer who enjoyed a hugely popular career spanning more than seventy years. In fact, there are times when you cant help feeling that wodehouse has been surpassed. A life in letters makes clear, plum as he was known to his friends was preternaturally buoyant. The best books on p g wodehouse 1 the inimitable jeeves by pg wodehouse. Wodehouse 18811975 first published in 1919, my man jeeves is a collection of short stories featuring the well known fictional characters jeeves and bertie wooster. His final completed novel was aunts arent gentlemen aka the catnappers. His writing includes novels, short stories, plays and poems, alongside song lyrics and a successful side in journalism. Often regarded as being the single funniest piece of sustained writing in the. Descriptive language doesnt get much better than that of wodehouse, but in his blockbusting novel, piccadilly jim, it has. Mar 26, 2014 he came honestly by the lightness of his books. Its set in blandings castle, wodehouses famous fictional country idyll.
Thats great for him, but it also means i find myself up against the dashed difficult problem of determining where to begin. Widely considered a master of prose in the english language, the prolific author was admired by fellow contemporary authors such as hilaire belloc, evelyn waugh and rudyard kipling and modern authors such as douglas adams, j. Sir pelham grenville wodehouse 18811975 was an english author of comic short stories and novels, best known for his jeeves and blandings castle series. A guide to cozy mystery and other favorite books, movies, and tv. Five complete novels the return of jeeves, bertie wooster sees it through, spring fever, the butler did it, the old reliable p. It also contains his own autobiography, over seventy, in which he describes his victorian childhood. Wodehouse became a published author in 1902 with the novel the pothunters. Pelham grenville wodehouse was born in 1881 in guildford, surrey. Wodehouses books in order of when they were originally. Thanks for this wonderfully perceptive meditation on wodehouse favorite novelists. Its also helpful to know that wodehouses books were often.
Something fresh came out as the writers debut in 1915 and took the world as its fans. A large portion of the quotes here are borrowed from his books. Wodehouses blandings castle books in order of when they were originally published. Wodehouse audio books sir pelham grenville wodehouse 18811975 was an english humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. The blandings castle series also known as the blandings books consists of 11 novels and 9 short stories, beginning with something fresh in 1915 and ending with sunset at blandings in 1977. In addition to wodehouse s best known and beloved jeeves and bertie stories, the most of p. Wodehouse was one of the most widely renowned humorists of the 20th century. A critic once remarked on how most of wodehouses characters are the same people disguised under different names in different novels. Not mysteriesalthough bertie has remained a mystery for decades. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than. The compilation consists of eight stories, of which four feature the popular duo while the other four stories feature reggie pepper, an early model of bertie wooster. So to help me navigate the options i contacted the man who introduced me to wodehouse a number of years.
The following is an incomplete list of fictional characters featured in the books and stories of p. Wodehouse is perhaps best known for the characters he created bertie wooster, the idlerich english gentleman, and his intelligent valet. So to help me navigate the options i contacted the man who introduced me to wodehouse a number of years back, douglas wilson. You should not be expecting to laugh all the way through these novels. The comic rejoinder he received was full of sparkling wit and. This is a collection of three of wodehouses nonfiction books. So, whether it is the featherbrained bertie wooster or the wise valet, jeeves, the immaculate and loquacious psmith or telltale man mr mulliner, each of them carry the legacy of wodehouses brilliance till date. Wodehouse, including novels and collections of short stories, sorted first by date of publication and later by series i. Wodehouses comic debut, something fresh, appeared in 1915. Discretion is necessary since peters daughter is engaged to emsworths son. It was much longer than your post, but i think yours is every bit as insightful.
Wodehouse features delightful stories about the drones club and its affable, vacuous members. Due to overlap between the various classifications of wodehouses work, some characters appear more than once. Wodehouse passed away while writing sunset at blandings, which was finished and published in 1977. Wodehouse, including first editions, signed, and finely bound copies of the jeeves novels. Wodehouse was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read. Wodehouses work has been anthologized, recompiled, and republished under a great many titles. Dec 22, 2014 f or pg wodehouse, this novel, completed amid the horrors of wartime germany, was something of a miracle, the supreme jeeves novel of all time, he wrote. Bertie and jeeves first emerged, in highly popular magazine short. F or pg wodehouse, this novel, completed amid the horrors of wartime germany, was something of a miracle, the supreme jeeves novel of all time.
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