P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse has written at least 47 books. Their most popular book is Very Good, Jeeves! with 42 saves with an average rating of 3.94⭐.

Author Bio

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens commented, "there is not, and never will be, anything to touch him."

Wodehouse's characters are often eccentric, with peculiar attachments, such as to pigs (Lord Emsworth), newts (Gussie Fink-Nottle), antique silver (Bertie's Uncle Tom Travers), golf-collectables (numerous characters) or socks (Archibald Mulliner). His "mentally negligible" good-natured characters invariably make their lot worse by their half-witted schemes to improve a bad situation.

A key figure in most Wodehouse stories is a "fixer" whose genius soars above the incompetent blather and crude bluster of most of the other characters, Jeeves being the best known example. Other characters in this vein are Lord Ickenham ("Uncle Fred") and Galahad Threepwood, who perform much the same role in the Blandings Castle stories—though never both at the same time—and Psmith, who does the same thing in the stories that bear his name.

Wodehouse was known for his consummate skill at their detailed construction and development. Typically, a relative or friend makes some demand that forces a character into a bizarre situation from which it seems impossible to recover, only to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale.

Source: Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse]

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Very Good, Jeeves! P. G. Wodehouse	3.94	30 reads
Jeeves in the Morning P. G. Wodehouse	4.18	20 reads
Love Among the Chickens P. G. Wodehouse	4	2 reads
Much Obliged, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	2 reads
My Man Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	4	2 reads
Just Enough Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse Robert McCrum	4	1 read
How right you are, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	4	1 read
Ring for Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	4.5	1 read
My Man Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The Pothunters P. G. Wodehouse	0	1 read
The Man with Two Left Feet P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The mating season P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Plum pie P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
A few quick ones P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Joy in the morning Joy in the morning P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Very Good, Jeeves! Very Good, Jeeves! P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Something Fresh P. G. Wodehouse	4.5	1 read
A Gentleman of Leisure P. G. Wodehouse	3	1 read
My Man Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
French Leave P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Carry on, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Summer Lightning P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The Gold Bat P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Jeeves in the offing P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Leave it to Psmith P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Alison Larkin Presents My Man Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves Alison Larkin Presents My Man Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Mike and Psmith P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Psmith Series P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Three Men and a Maid P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Enter Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The week-end Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The Intrusion of Jimmy P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
William Tell Told Again P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Luna llena Luna llena P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The Indiscretions of Archie The Indiscretions of Archie P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Something New P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
The Little Warrior P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Wodehouse om Wodehouse Wodehouse om Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Young men in spats P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads
Fore! P. G. Wodehouse	0	0 reads