Life with Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Compendium)

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P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is an English-born storyteller and journalist who came to America before World War I and sold a serial to the Saturday Evening Post, where most of his books first appeared. Though Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books and 20 film scripts, and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies, he is perhaps best known as the creator of the gentlemanly character Jeeves, "that subtle master of prudence, good taste, and ineffable composure." This three-part edition will delight newcomers to Wodehouse as well as those already familiar with his "sunny universe and sparkling prose." Let the reader beware: unless you are the kind of person who enjoys being stared at, do not attempt to read anything by P. G. Wodehouse in public. If you do, you'll soon find yourself an object of interest on the bus, plane or train as you attempt to stifle guffaws or end up accidentally swallowing your tongue in a useless effort to squash that belly-laugh. Wodehouse is, quite simply, one of the funniest men on the planet, and this latest compendium of his work, Life with Jeeves, is Wodehouse at his best.

Here you'll find Bertie Wooster, a complete gentleman, but the first to admit he's a bit of a chump; his valet, Jeeves, infinitely sagacious, the source of all solace; and a wild collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, female authors, crusading communists, troublesome cousins, cantankerous dogs, unwanted fiancés and more-all bound up in plots as impossibly labyrinthine as they are laugh-out-loud funny.

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So, so funny!.......2007-06-15

This book was my first aquaintance (I'm a late bloomer, what ho) with Wodehouse. I made the mistake of reading the story which contains Gussie Fink-Nottle's speech to the students of the Market Snodsbury Grammar School while I was on an airplane from New York to London. My fellow travelers were trying not to stare at me and I was trying to be discreet, but I lost control at some point and just about exploded with tears of laughter and tummy aching.

I defy anyone to read this passage without making a complete and happy fool of themselves!

The stories are great and Wodehouse's use of language and British slang is perfect. The perfect antidote for whatever ails you!

Nick Green -- "Life With Jeeves".......2006-09-13

Wodehouse's "Life With Jeeves" is a three-part volume containing "The Inimitable Jeeves", "Very Good, Jeeves!" and "Right Ho, Jeeves." The first two are collections of tales and the third is one long story. Bertram, or "Bertie," Wooster is a wealthy middle-aged man who continuously finds himself in incredible, complex messes that he is unable to solve. From the evil Aunt Agatha to the eternally in love Bingo Little, Bertie goes through it all. But just when things seem their worst, Jeeves comes through. Jeeves, "a bird of the ripest intellect, the source of all solace" time and time again devises an intricate plan that will not only rescue Bertie and his friends from the most terrifying situations but that will even benefit them.
In "Life With Jeeves," Wodehouse cleverly and hilariously pokes fun at the British aristocracy of the early 20th century. I find it funny that Bertie Wooster, an Oxford-educated man, must repeatedly request aid from his valet Jeeves. Wodehouse uses the fine art of literature to show the silliness of the British upper class. At one point in the book, Bingo, a friend of Bertie's of the same social status, dresses up as a member of lesser status for reasons I will not go into to avoid being longwinded. He eventually yells at his own uncle and Bertie: "There you see two typical members of the class which has down-trodden the poor for centuries. Idlers! Non-producers! Look at the tall thin one with the face like a motor-mascot. Has he ever done an honest day's work in his life? No! A prowler, a trifler, and a bloodsucker! And I bet he still owes his tailor for those trousers! And the fat one! Don't miss him. What has he ever done except eat four square meals a day? His god is his belly, and he sacrifices burnt offerings to it. If you opened that man now you would find enough lunch to support ten working-class families for a week." This not only comically summarizes the message Wodehouse is sending throughout the novel, but gives some insight as to what was going on at that time. The lower class was very worked up about the rich aristocracy, who generally just sit on their inherited wealth.

Although some might consider Wodehouse's works purely entertainment, I find that, while amusing, there is a significant underlying message. My only criticism of "Life With Jeeves" is that the stories tend to become somewhat predictable. They follow a certain formula: Bertie gets himself into trouble and Jeeves either advises or directly helps him, salvaging the mess that Bertie has created. Except for this one small complaint, I found "Life With Jeeves" highly entertaining and enjoyable and would recommend it to anyone interested.

Type is Way Too Small.......2006-03-04

I should have realized that you can't shove several books into one without this happening. The low rating has nothing to do with Wodehouse - I am an inveterate fan - but I wish Amazon gave us a choice of getting him in type big enough to read.

Hilarious.......2005-10-20

I haven't seen the PBS series, and only came to Wodehouse via an article in the theological/political journal First Things (of all places). Probably the only other books that made me laugh out loud were Dave Barry's "Dave Barry Slept Here" and Steve Martin's "Cruel Shoes". Wodehouse's writing is hilarious - Bertie Wooster is absurdly simple (and yet Oxford-educated), and this simplicity combined with his indignation and being referred to as dull-witted, and his incessant attempts to do without Jeeve's assistance, are the reliable comic elements that rarely fail to elicit a chuckle.

One almost wishes that there were titled upper-class nimrods tooling around America in their roadsters and confounding the proletariat with their "What-ho's"

It is Wodehouse's mastery of upper-class English slang, and his wrenchingly descriptive language that really stand out. Particularly Wooster's many euphamisms for Aunt Agatha.

Overall, an excellent book that I am delighted to discover. I'm not sure how much Wodehouse I could take on a long term basis, but Life With Jeeves certainly leaves me wanting more.

A Most Amazing Cove!.......2005-08-14

These books follow the misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves, who manages to get him safely out of these situations. We are introduced to characters such as the "high on love" Bingo Little, the formidable Aunt Agatha, newts aficionado Gussie, and the much-disliked Honoria Glossop.

While situations involving these and other characters are in themselves funny, Wodehouse's writing style clinches the humor. I cannot figure out how to describe it so here are examples. From The Inimitable Jeeves: "I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express on the small of the back." From Very Good, Jeeves: "If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head." I think people sitting next to me on the metro were a bit alarmed at the giggles I would let out while reading this book, but if they had been reading it too, they would have been laughing harder. I was trying very hard to restrain myself.

Of the three books included in this edition, my favorite would have to be Right Ho, Jeeves because of its continuation of one plot line through the whole of book with a couple of detours. I found that The Inimitable Jeeves was almost like a collection of short stories, with each adventure being resolved within two to three chapters. In Very Good, Jeeves, each story continued for more than a couple chapters but they did not continue throughout the whole book. I'm not usually a fan of short stories, so that may have been why I liked the last book the most. However, they are all well-written. As Bertie might say, this book is "an amazing cove!" Highly recommended - it gets five stars for writing and four and a half stars for my enjoyment.

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2nd-4th Books in the Blandings Castle Series
Absolute delight
Very funny with interesting characters
wonderfully funny novels by a master of humor

Life at Blandings (OMNIBUS)
P. G. Wodehouse
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2nd-4th Books in the Blandings Castle Series.......2004-12-30

Blandings Castle comes alive when the Empress of Blandings arrives, which she does in Summer Lightning. All fans of romantic comedies will enjoy these books very much.

Be sure to begin the series by reading, Leave It to Psmith, which has an outstanding plot and introduces most of the major characters in the series

Summer Lightning is better than many other P.G. Wodehouse books in that the plot and character development are more thorough than most which keeps the fun going longer.

Clarence, the ninth Earl of Emsworth, is at home in his castle in Shropshire where he dotes on his famous prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings. Having dispatched his earlier secretary, Baxter, Clarence is at peace contemplating how his pig will win again when he learns from his brother Galahad (Gally) that the neighbor's pig man is offering 3:1 odds against the Empress. Clarence and Gally presume that their neighbor, Sir Gregory Parsloe is planning to knobble the Empress. Their worst fears are borne out when the Empress disappears!

At the same time, Parsloe lives in fear that Gally will publish old stories about his wild younger days in Gally's new book. Clarence's and Gally's sister Connie wants to stop publication as well. Soon the castle is overrun with manuscript thieves!

At the same time, love is in the air. Clarence's new secretary, Hugo Carmody, is secretly and unsuitably in love with Millicent Threepwood, niece to Clarence, Connie and Gally, and Millicent is in love with him. But they need to get some financial help to pull off the merger.

Ronald Fish, a wealthy young man whose money is tied with Clarence, is also in love with an unsuitable person . . . one Sue Brown who is a chorus girl. Ronnie has proven himself to be a poor judge of investments in the past, and Clarence is skeptical of allowing any more money. It doesn't help when Clarence finds that Ronnie doesn't truly share his love of pigs!

Will love win out? Of course! It's a P.G. Wodehouse book. But before love wins, humor will take the day in many silly scenes worthy of Shakespeare's best in the forest of Arden.

Heavy Weather picks up where Summer Lightning leaves off. Ronnie Fish's jealousy gets Sue Brown and him into trouble when his mother, Lady Julia Fish, arrives to sunder the pair. Gally's manuscript continues to play a role throughout as does the Empress. This book would only be a three-stars book if you didn't read Summer Lightning first.

In most P.G. Wodehouse stories, the innocents and the not-so-innocents attempt to solve tricky family problems with feats of misdirection and partial truths. The result of these complicated ruses is usually a great deal of unexpected consequences that will tickle almost any funny bone. Heavy Weather is an unusually fine example of this type of story.

Monty Bodkin, who's rolling in dough, must hold a job for a year to win the approval of his fiancee's father. Then the wedding bells can chime. Monty isn't the most helpful fellow, and makes a hash out of his writing for Tiny Tots. He soon uses his uncle's influence a second time to get a new job as private secretary to Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, whose pride and joy is his prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings.

This new employment creates much consternation for Sue Brown, who is engaged to marry the jealous Ronnie Fish. Monty and Sue had been engaged earlier, and Sue's afraid that Ronnie won't be able to handle having Monty around. Wedding bells for Sue and Ronnie depend on getting Clarence to release trust funds for Ronnie. There are a few other problems, as well. For example, Sue earns her living as a chorus girl. What will Ronnie's mother, Lady Julia, think?

The key theme of the story is that true love will win out, if the lovers follow their hearts and seize opportunity when it arises. In that way, the end will charm almost anyone . . . much like Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream does.

In most stories like this, you can anticipate how the obstacles will be overcome. Well, Heavy Weather will surprise you, if you are like me. The plot complications and resolution are delightfully adept, acrobatic, and subtle. I felt like I was watching the elephants do their ballet dance again in Fantasia. The contradictions between the messy moments and the final neatness are brilliantly handled!

The conflict between the desire to have a good reputation and the willingness to do whatever it takes to succeed (including cutting all possible corners) is shown off to good effect in Heavy Weather. Developing this point creates questions about what real goodness is, versus assumed goodness from social position and family connections. In fact, inherited intelligence is also questioned for its morality. The more powerful minds in the story tend to use those capabilities to plot for self-advantage, rather than to accomplish anything meaningful for all involved. Those of limited intelligence, by contrast, tend to follow their hearts and try to do the right thing.

Good results follow in this story whenever people are loyal and honor goodness.

What can you accomplish by being loyal and honoring goodness today? And tomorrow?

Absolute delight.......2004-11-10

I love PG Wodehouse, and the Blandings books are by far my favorites. I have the hardback edition of this omnibus, and the prefaces by the author are every bit as charming and witty and sweet-natured as the three novels they introduce.

Very funny with interesting characters.......2001-01-08

This is my first P.G. Wodehouse book. I liked the stories so much that I immediately bought another of his books. The plots are amusing, but the characters are the center of the book. Lord Emsworth is described as a man who "never experienced the thirll of ambition fullfilled, ... but never knew the agony of ambition frustrated". Another very interesting character, Mr. Peters, who belongs to a group of men who "... cannot rest, who are so constituted that they can only take their leisure in the shape of a change of work". Interestingly, their personalities evolve as the story unfolds. Wodehouse satire excludes no one not even writers. He writes, "The reason why all we novelists with bulging foreheads an expensive educations are abandoning novels and taking to writing motion-picture secnarii is because the latter are so infinitely the more simple and pleasant". I also enjoyed his reference to the critics in the preface of "Summer Lightning".

It's certainly a very entertaining book, with a lot of opportunities for vocabulary building. I would recommend this book for students of English as a second language.

wonderfully funny novels by a master of humor.......1998-10-03

The three novels in this volume are three of the first four novels in P G Wodehouse's great Blandings Castle series (the other is Leave It to Psmith). Something Fresh isn't quite as good as Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather, because that memorable pig, the Empress of Blandings, has not yet appeared at the Castle. Heavy Weather takes place immediately after Summer Lightning, and the two are, in my opinion, two of Wodehouse's very best. Some of the great Wodehouse characters are here - the woolly-headed Ninth Earl of Emsworth, his sister, Lady Constance, and brother, The Honorable Galahad Threepwood, not to mention, among others, The Efficient Baxter. Not to be missed by anybody with a sense of humor.

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The Novel Life of P.G. Wodehouse
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Scholarly but highly entertaining biography reveals the real man, his life and work.

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Dissenting Review
Affectionate tribute to Woosterism
Well researched, wonderful account
Thanks for the memories.
A touching biography

Wodehouse: A Life
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"An invaluable portrait, thanks to a broad, incisive and complex understanding of Wodehouse's psyche."—Janet Maslin, New York Times

To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le Carré, and Seamus Heaney. Wodehouse had an extraordinary Broadway career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even dared to rewrite Cole Porter's Anything Goes for the London stage.

Robert McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life. The ill-judged broadcasts from Berlin, where Wodehouse was interned during World War II, produced a violent backlash in England and tarred him, unfairly, as a Nazi sympathizer. His long love affair with America was compromised by endless acrimony with the IRS. This is the book all Wodehouse fans have been waiting for; it eclipses all previous accounts of his life. An Economist Best Book of 2004. 16 pages of illustrations.

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Dissenting Review.......2007-07-23

I never would have read this book, had I not watched the McCrum interview on the recently released DVD of "Thank You, Jeeves" and "Step Lively, Jeeves", known informally as "The Jeeves Collection". Why would I not have read it? First, because having read Donaldson's quite lively bio. of Wodehouse, I knew all of the salient facts. Second, there's a deplorable tendency in modern biographies to read into the subject. Ones on Wodehouse are the worst for this, since he's obviously in this sense not a modern.

Having dipped into this bio, what's the verdict? First, I think most of the reviewers of this bio haven't read Donaldson's, or they'd quit giving credit to McCrum for digging up what has long been common knowledge. Second, what's wrong with this book is the same thing wrong with the reviewers who rave about it. One "official" review calls it "authoritative", an over-used word employed when reviewers can't find anything else to say (something rendered authoritative may be superseded and rendered obsolete the next day, so rather than implying stability and permanence, the word really suggests something unstable and ephemeral; the word the reviewer wanted was "magisterial"). The New Yorker reviewer calls Wodehouse "undersexed", a completely idiotic adjective airily tossed out that makes one wonder why that magazine was ever considered a flagship of good writing. That's only the official reviews.

McCrum's book actually dates, in its British publication, to 2004, so he might have gotten a lot better since then, as shown in the interview. How I wish he'd re-edited the book, cutting out say, about 400 pages of dropping words like "repressed" where he indirectly alludes to the tired and extraordinarily dated Freudian analysis that makes modern bios such an interminably dull read. Of course, it turns out he's an editor at the Observer, whose readership take the title to mean Voyeur, and the book is republished in paperback by Norton, who absolutely cater to last Tuesday's paradigm, so what can the reader who'd simply like to read about Wodehouse in, were it possible, prose as good as his own, do?

Bios about Wodehouse love to say he was such a dull man who wrote such sparkling prose, as if there's some contradiction. The biographers, of course, in spite of their notoriously dull prose, are supposed to be the life and soul of the party. Those who have read the early Wodehouse know that he was just as bad a writer as everyone nowadays, and for the same reason (the school stories are an exception because they are largely their own genre, and a subject Wodehouse knew like the back of his hand). As he got better, he broke all the rules, and dropped out everything thought essential for a good novel. There is no description, no characterization. His later books are scripted like plays (or musicals) with a continuing narrative voice. Good writing is as much about what one leaves out as about what one puts in. McCrum could have left out quite a lot of psychobabble. Why did he not? Because he doesn't trust himself as a writer to go head to head with the moth-eaten Freudians of the Brit lit establishment. Why do readers say it's a good book? Because they don't trust themselves to read a straight forward biography without an interpretive framework.

Did one get past all that, there still remain problems for the American reader, mainly that the book is very British. Where McCrum could explain all this Britania, he doesn't, since his readership is firmly planted in the UK. He does explain lots of things that don't need to be explained, as they are self- evident in Wodehouse. Of course, if you can wade through this bio., you discover lots of great stuff, particularly about the Edwardian Age, enough to mourn for its destruction in WWI. McCrum, of course, has a motive, whether ulterior or not. He believes Wodehouse has been undervalued and wants to provide a reassessment. That would be OK if he meant, as he seems to, to provide his own view of Wodehouse's place and achievement in literature. Unfortunately, the people he seems to want to convert are the motheaten Freudians, who can't help read into everything, and sadder yet, he gives them every chance to do so. No one would mourn that Wodehouse was an "innocent" except one regaling himself as a "decadent", which, of course, these cultured despisers do (never mind that both terms are undefined). Wodehouse, like Shakespeare, never played to the box, he was "of the people". If others choose to look on, well let them, he would say. He was no snob, and he had nothing to hide.

Affectionate tribute to Woosterism.......2007-04-27

I often wondered, when reading the various Wodehouse stories, which character most matched the author's viewpoint. Certainly not Bertie, too brainless, nor Jeeves, too understated; for a time I believed it might be those formidable Aunts. This book gives the answer - but read it to find out.
The book is entirely sympathetic to Wodehouse, its biggest surprise to me is the enormous difference between his lifestyle and that of his characters. There are similarities - Wodehouse would flit off to various leased houses in the US, UK and Europe until his fifties. However his working life resembled that of a monk, he rose early, exercised often and wrote incessantly. He was quite a remote person, and quite a few people were disappointed at his lack of sparkling repartee in company. McCrum is quite forgiving of Wodehouse's ordinariness; as he is of Wodehouse's major faux pas by broadcasting on German radio during the war. McCrum puts this down to Wodehouse's other wordliness, disorientation and lack of trusted advisors. Yet he paints a picture of an author, single-minded about his craft, and quite professional in his commercial and public relations, so this picture did not convince. Similarly Wodehouse sat out the First World War in America, but no calumny seems to have attached itself to him for that, McCrum assures us that Wodehouse did not volunteer, because he felt he would be unfit - I wonder.
The major attractions of the book for me, are the chronology of the books and the inferences McCrum makes about Wodehouse's personal circumstances. He was a most guarded personality, not given to personal revelation and the books are lightness itself, yet McCrum makes some convincing arguments about Wodehouse's feelings from the various texts. Wodehouse lived so long, and his work changed so little, that he went from writing recognizable humour to historical fiction within his lifetime.
Less known (at least to me) is the range of Wodehouse's work, he was a journalist, a theatre critic, a novelist and a lyricist - working with Cole Porter and the Gershwins.
It is the sheer craft of his work that delights - for me it is the ability to convey the full implications of the Wooster plots, through the dim-wittedness of the narrator, that makes Wodehouse unmatched. However, in some senses, he was the last of the Victorian writers - his work was serialised in popular magazines, as well as published in book form. For each novel he had four sources of income - US and UK serialization rights and book royalties, as he turned out a book a year, he became very wealthy, though his constant house-changing may have been a taxation issue as much as anything else. To have written characters which define an epoch, was a triumph. To have done so in the Twentieth Century, when the public looked to novelists to define life's meaning, may have led to Wodehouse's downfall, for he was never really interested in anything outside of professional writing, his family and sport.
I would fault McCrum's book in two ways - there is an over concentration on Wodehouse's sexuality, too much is made of fleeting references from a man who was extremely careful not to parade his life, views or feelings in public. I think no effort is made to see him as a man of his (Edwardian) times. Also McCrum does not convey a sense of Wodehouse's aging - it is difficult to envisage him as changing in character or style or experience, at any point from 1918 to 1940, thereafter it is despair and increasing infirmity which mark him.
Nonetheless this is an extremely entertaining read and I recommend it highly.

Well researched, wonderful account.......2007-03-26

McCrum's book is an excellent, exhaustive account of Wodehouse's long life. McCrum avoids the trap of many biographers, that is, becoming an apologist for his subject. It would have been easy for McCrum to do 60 years after Wodehouse's controversial involvement with the Nazis during World War II. But McCrum's account is beautifully balanced, pointing out Wodehouse's strongest writings, as well as his weakest, all the while taking Wodehouse to task for his naivete of world affairs. McCrum's account gives me the impression that, seemingly, Wodehouse was about as deep and frothy as his wonderfully light-hearted books.
One of the oddities of this book, however, is how Wodehouse's immediate family, essentially, disappears upon his becoming professional. Granted, Wodehouse did not have a close relationship with his parents given their absence during his upbringing, but does McCrum believe that all connections were severed? If so, that part of Wodehouse's life certainly needed to be explored more fully or explained with greater depth.

Thanks for the memories........2006-08-17

Wodehouse wrote about another time and place, Edwardian England, and seemed to prefer that era and his fictional characters to his present-day settings and circumstances. This biography is fun to read, and does an excellent job of describing Wodehouse's work and personality. I especially like the descriptions of his youth and early career, and of the final years. It is in these final chapters that McCrum injects more analysis, seeking to tie Wodehouse's personality to the body of fiction produced.
The book is long, however, and I found myself skimming in the middle part, chapters focused more than I wanted on details of the various fictional plots, settings and characters.

A touching biography.......2006-07-18

I am obviously a Wodehouse fan, although I admit that I occasionally find some of his writing tiresome (that's why I try not to read two of his books consecutively).

Having read this insightful and, in some parts, poignant biography, I have a more sympathetic view of the writer. (I wonder if a contemporary Wodehouse would meet the same success; I doubt so.)

In any case, this is supposed to be a review of this biography. My verdict is above.

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Satisfactory Times Three!!!

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Satisfactory Times Three!!!.......2002-06-03

Stout fans will love this new edition of the definitive, Edgar award-winning biography of Rex Stout. This printing by James Rock Publishing Company contains a new introduction by Professor McAleer and an Afterword by his son, mystery writer Andrew McAleer (Appearance of Counsel) who visited Stout's home and study at age eleven. In addition, there are never-before-published photos of Rex Stout. As always, P.G. Wodehouse's Foreword is great fun. Satisfactory Times Three!!!

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New Fans and Old Hands Will Both Take To This PGW Intro

Wodehouse (Life&Times series)
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, lyrics, and essays, all with the same light touch of gentle satire. He charmed twentieth-century readers with his delightful tales recounting the bunglings of his endearing aristocrats, most famously his aristocratic gentleman Bertie Wooster and his cunning manservant, Jeeves.

Born in England, Wodehouse moved to France in 1934. He was captured and interned by the Germans from 1940 to 1941, after which he made five radio broadcasts to America, which caused British critics to suggest that he was a traitor to his native country. Wodehouse returned to America, gained citizenship in 1955, and lived there with his wife until his death, twenty years later.

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New Fans and Old Hands Will Both Take To This PGW Intro.......1999-10-04

Those new to PGW can find the going tough; you literally can't see the forest for the trees (well not literally). This brief (159 page)oversize intro in the Thames and Hudson Literary Lives series is drenched in beautiful b&w illustrations and peppered with lively prose. The best part, though, is the brief bibliography, which enables one to wade through the various editions and cross reference English and American titles, so you don't buy the same book under two different names. Rather than bog down his biography, Connolly has kept just the good bits in this once over lightly tour of PGW's life and letters, which surely numbers among the best of the books on PGW.

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Plum Punch: The Life Of Writers
P. G. Wodehouse
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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"Well, he was, as I say, prospering very fairly, when in an unlucky moment he began to make a collection of editorial rejection forms. He had always been a somewhat easy prey to scourges of that description. But when he had passed safely through a sharp attack of Philatelism and a rather nasty bout of Autographomania, everyone hoped and believed that he had turned the corner. The progress of his last illness was very rapid. Within a year he wanted but one specimen to make the complete set.

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Well, he was, as I say, prospering very fairly, when in an unlucky moment he began to make a collection of editorial rejection forms. He had always been a somewhat easy prey to scourges of that description. But when he had passed safely through a sharp attack of Philatelism and a rather nasty bout of Autographomania, everyone hoped and believed that he had turned the corner. The progress of his last illness was very rapid. Within a year he wanted but one specimen to make the complete set.

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