P.G. Wodehouse
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For more than a century, readers around the world would have been delighted by the novels, short stories, plays, lyrics and essays of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, best known as the creator of the dimwitter English gentleman Bertie Wooster and his indispensable valet, Jeeves. The definitive authorised biography of one of…
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This summer, I read and re-read many of the 20th-century British-American humorist P.G. Wodehouse’s books and stories, especially the Jeeves and Wooster stories. Besides being funny, Wodehouse’s use of the English language is delightfully creative (e.g., he was decanted into the automobile; Jeeves shimmered out of the room).
But beyond this, I found the stories calming. I was finishing up my latest book and was anxious about it. That’s when my significant other, also a Wodehouse fan, plopped a used copy of David Jasen’s Wodehouse biography, A Portrait of a Master, on my night table. I picked up the…
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