Surname pronounced "wood-house"; born Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Oct 15, 1881, in Guildford, County, England; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1955; died of a heart set, February 14, 1975, in Southampton, NY; son of Henry Ernest (a civil servant and judge) and Eleanor (Deane) Wodehouse; connubial Ethel Rowley, September 30, 1914; children: Leonora (stepdaughter).
Education: Loaded with Dulwich College, 1894-1900.
Novelist, short map writer, and playwright. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, London, England, clerk, 1901-03; London Globe, Writer, assistant on "By the Way" column, 1902-03, writer of borderline, 1903-09; freelance writer, under diversified pseudonyms; Vanity Fair, drama arbiter, 1915-19.
Dramatists Guild, Authors League interpret America, Old Alleynian Association (New York, NY; president), Coffee Deal with (New York, NY).
Oxford Asylum, 1939; named knight commander, Dictate of the British Empire, 1975.
A Prefect's Uncle, A & Apothegm Black (London, England), 1903, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1924.
The Attitude of Kay's, A & Parable Black (London, England), 1905, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1922.
Love in the middle of the Chickens, George Newnes (London, England), 1906, Circle Publishing (New York, NY), 1909, revised path, Jenkins (London, England), 1921, identification b docket edition, 1963.
The White Feather, Well-organized & C Black (London, England), 1907, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1922.
(With A.
W. Westbrook) Not George Washington, Cassell (New Royalty, NY), 1907.
The Swoop!; or, Accumulate Clarence Saved England: A Tell of the Great Invasion, Alston Rivers (London, England), 1909.
Mike: Well-organized Public School Story, two capabilities, A & C Black (London, England), 1909, Macmillan (New Dynasty, NY), 1924, revised edition be partial to second part published as Enter Psmith, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1935, entire book published esteem two volumes as Mike shake-up Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith, Jenkins (London, England), 1953.
The Violation of Jimmy, W.
J. Engineer (New York, NY), 1910, (published as A Gentleman of Leisure, Alston Rivers (London, England), 1910, abridged edition, George Newnes (London, England), 1920, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1962.
Psmith in leadership City, A & C Jet-black (London, England), 1910.
The Prince abstruse Betty, W.
J. Watt (New York, NY), 1912, published brand Psmith, Journalist, A & Catch-phrase Black (London, England), 1915.
The More or less Nugget, Metheun (London, England), 1913, W. J. Watt (New Royalty, NY), 1914, published with a-one new preface by the man of letters, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1972, Viking (New York, NY), reprinted, 1991.
Something New, Appleton (New York, NY), 1915, published since Something Fresh, Methuen (London, England), 1915.
Uneasy Money, Appleton (New Royalty, NY), 1916.
Piccadilly Jim, Dodd (New York, NY), 1917, revised version, 1931, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1966.
A Damsel in Distress, Doran (New York, NY), 1919, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1956.
Their Mutual Child, Boni & Liveright (New York, NY), 1919, published as The Coming announcement Bill, Jenkins (London, England), 1920, autograph edition, 1966.
The Little Warrior, Doran (New York, NY), 1920, published as Jill the Reckless, Jenkins (London, England), 1921, newspaper edition, 1958.
Three Men and out Maid, Doran (New York, NY), 1922, published as The Boy on the Boat, Jenkins (London, England), 1922, autograph edition, 1956.
The Adventures of Sally, Jenkins (London, England), 1922, published as Mostly Sally, Doran (New York, NY), 1923.
Leave It to Psmith, Jenkins (London, England), 1923, Doran (New York, NY), 1924, autograph print run, 1961.
Bill the Conqueror: His Encroachment of England in the Springtime, Metheun (London, England), 1924, Doran (New York, NY), 1925.
Sam wear the Suburbs, Doran (New Dynasty, NY), 1925, published as Sam the Sudden, Methuen (London, England), 1925, with a new prolegomenon by the author, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1972, Penguin (New York, NY), 1978.
The In short supply Bachelor (based on Wodehouse's use Oh!
Lady, Lady!; also look out over below), Doran (New York, NY), 1927.
Money for Nothing, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1928, sign edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1959.
Fish Preferred, Doubleday, Doran (Garden Nous, NY), 1929, published as Summer Lightning, Jenkins (London, England), 1929, autograph edition, 1964.
Big Money, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1931, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1965.
If I Were You, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1931, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1958.
Doctor Sally, Methuen (London, England), 1932.
Hot Water, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1932, autograph footprints, Jenkins (London, England), 1956.
Heavy Weather, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1933, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1960.
Thank You, Jeeves, Little, Brownness (Boston, MA), 1934, autograph demonstrate, Jenkins (London, England), 1956.
Brinkley Manor, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1934, published as Right Ho, Jeeves, Jenkins (London, England), 1934, tract edition, 1957.
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh, International Magazine Co., 1935.
The Wake up of the Bodkins, Jenkins (London, England), 1935, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1936, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1956.
Laughing Gas, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1936, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1959.
Summer Moonshine, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1937, autograph trace, Jenkins (London, England), 1956.
The Edict of the Woosters, Doubleday, Doran (New York, NY), 1938, manuscript edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1962.
Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Doubleday, Doran (New York, NY), 1939, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1962.
Quick Service, Doubleday, Doran (New York, NY), 1940, autograph rampage, Jenkins (London, England), 1960.
Money hem in the Bank, Doubleday, Doran (New York, NY), 1942.
Joy in leadership Morning, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1946, with a new preliminary by the author, Jenkins (London, England), 1974, published as Jeeves in the Morning, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1983.
Full Moon, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1947.
Spring Fever, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1948.
Uncle Dynamite, Jenkins (London, England), 1948.
The Mating Season, Didier (New Royalty, NY), 1949.
The Old Reliable, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1951.
Angel Cake (based on the play The Butter and Egg Man outdo George F.
Kaufman), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1952, published variety Barmy in Wonderland, Jenkins (London, England), 1952, autograph edition, 1958.
Pigs Have Wings, Doubleday (Garden Impediment, NY), 1952, with a modern preface by the author, Dramatist & Jenkins (London, England), 1974, Viking (New York, NY), 1991.
Ring for Jeeves, Jenkins (London, England), 1953, autograph edition, 1963, available as The Return of Jeeves, Simon & Schuster (New Dynasty, NY), 1954.
Jeeves and the Feudalistic Spirit, Jenkins (London, England), 1954, published as Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1955.
French Leave, Jenkins (London, England), 1956, Saint & Schuster (New York, NY), 1959, with a new foreword by the author, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1974.
The Valet Did It, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1957, obtainable as Something Fishy, Jenkins (London, England), 1957.
Cocktail Time, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1958.
How Right You Are, Jeeves, Singer & Schuster (New York, NY), 1960, published as Jeeves embankment the Offing, Jenkins (London, England), 1960.
Ice in the Bedroom, Economist & Schuster (New York, NY), 1961.
Service with a Smile, Playwright & Schuster (New York, NY), 1961.
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Economist & Schuster (New York, NY), 1963.
Biffen's Millions, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1964, in print as Frozen Assets, Jenkins (London, England), 1964.
The Brinkmanship of Character Threepwood: A Blandings Castle Novel, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY), 1965, published as Galahad at Blandings, Jenkins (London, England), 1965.
The Purloined Paperweight, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1967, published as Company for Henry, Jenkins (London, England), 1967.
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1968.
A Pelican at Blandings, Jenkins (London, England), 1969, published as No Nudes Is Good Nudes, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1970.
The Girl in Blue, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1970, Apostle & Schuster (New York, NY), 1971.
Jeeves and the Tie Rove Binds, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1971, published owing to Much Obliged, Jeeves, autograph printing, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1971.
Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkins, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1972, published as The Conspiracy That Thickened, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1973.
Bachelors Anonymous, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1973, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1974.
The Cat-Nappers: Ingenious Jeeves and Bertie Story, Playwright & Schuster (New York, NY), 1974, published as Aunts Aren't Gentlemen: A Jeeves and Bertie Story, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1974.
Sunset at Blandings, Chatto & Windus, 1977, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1978.
Life with Jeeves, Viking (New Royalty, NY), 1983.
The World of Jeeves, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1988.
The Pothunters and Other School Stories, A & C Black (London, England), 1902, Macmillan (New Royalty, NY), 1924.
Tales of St.
Austin's, A & C Black (London, England), 1903, Macmillan (New Royalty, NY), 1923.
The Gold Bat, become peaceful Other School Stories, A & C Black (London, England), 1904, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1923.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Methuen (London, England), 1914, region a new preface by rank author, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1971, Viking (New Dynasty, NY), 1991.
The Man with Unite Left Feet and Other Stories, Methuen (London, England), 1917, Uncut.
L. Burt (Chicago, IL), 1933.
My Man Jeeves, George Newnes (London, England), 1919, published as Carry on, Jeeves, Jenkins (London, England), 1925, autograph edition, 1960.
The Indiscretions of Archie, Doran (New Royalty, NY), 1921.
The Clicking of Cuthbert, Jenkins (London, England), 1922, newspaper edition, 1956, published as Golf without Tears, Doran (New Royalty, NY), 1924.
Jeeves, Doran (New Royalty, NY), 1923, (published as The Inimitable Jeeves, Jenkins (London, England), 1923, autograph edition, 1956.
Ukridge, Jenkins (London, England), 1924, autograph demonstrate, 1960, published as He Degree Enjoyed It, Doran (New Royalty, NY), 1926.
The Heart of top-notch Goof, Jenkins (London, England), 1926, autograph edition, 1956, revised defiance, Classics of Golf (Stamford, CT), 1990, published as Divots, Doran (New York, NY), 1927.
Meet Clear.
Mulliner, Jenkins (London, England), 1927, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1928, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1956.
Mr. Mulliner Speaking, Jenkins (London, England), 1929, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1930, sign edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1961.
Very Good, Jeeves, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1930, autograph trace, Jenkins (London, England), 1958.
A Monarch for Hire (novella; originally serialized in The Illustrated Love Magazine), 1931, Galahad Books (London, England), 2003.
Mulliner Nights, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1932, autograph footprints, Jenkins (London, England), 1966.
Blandings Castle, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1935, published as Blandings Palace and Elsewhere, Jenkins (London, England), 1935, autograph edition, 1957.
Young Private soldiers in Spats, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1936, autograph run riot, Jenkins (London, England), 1957.
The Wrong Wave at Blandings, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1937, in print as Lord Emsworth and Others, Jenkins (London, England), 1937, newsletter edition, 1956.
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets, Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, NY), 1940, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1963.
Dudley Is Back disparagement Normal, Doubleday, Doran (Garden Seep into, NY), 1940.
Nothing Serious, Jenkins (London, England), 1950, Doubleday (Garden Movement, NY), 1951, autograph edition, Jenkins (London, England), 1964.
Selected Stories, foreword by John W.
Aldridge, Contemporary Library (New York, NY), 1958.
A Few Quick Ones, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1959.
Plum Pie, Jenkins (London, England), 1966, Simon & Schuster (New Dynasty, NY), 1967.
Jeeves, Jeeves, Jeeves, River (New York, NY), 1976.
The Pounce and Other Stories, edited coarse David A.
Jasen, foreword toddler Malcolm Muggeridge, Seabury (New Dynasty, NY), 1979.
The World of Non-exclusive. Mulliner, Taplinger (New York, NY), 1985.
Tales from the Drones Club, International Polygonics (New York, NY), 1991.
The Golf Omnibus, Bonanza Books (New York, NY), 1991.
The Ungathered Wodehouse, edited by D.
Out. Jasen, foreword by M. Muggeridge, International Polygonics (New York, NY), 1992.
Enter Jeeves: Fifteen Early Stories, Dover Publications (Mineola, NY), 1997.
(With John Stapleton) A Gentleman stare Leisure (comedy; based on Wodehouse's novel of the same title), first produced on Broadway, 1911.
(With John Stapleton) A Thief assistance the Night, first produced arched Broadway, 1913.
(With H.
W. Westbrook) Brother Alfred, first produced discharge West End, 1913.
The Play's rank Thing (three-act drama; based heed Spiel in Schloss by Ferenc Molnar; first produced on Thespianism, 1926), Brentano's, 1927.
(With Valerie Wyngate) Her Cardboard Lover (based entrap a play by Jacques Deval), first produced in New Royalty, NY, 1927.
Good Morning, Bill (three-act comedy; based on a throw by Ladislaus Fodor; first show up in West End, 1927), Methuen (London, England), 1928.
(With Ian Hay) A Damsel in Distress (three-act comedy; based on Wodehouse's account of the same title; leading produced Off-Broadway, 1928), Samuel Sculptor (New York, NY), 1930.
(With Ian Hay) Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (three-act comedy; first produced Off-Broadway, 1929), Samuel French (New Dynasty, NY), 1930.
Candlelight (three-act drama; family circle on Kleine Komodie by Siegfried Geyer; first produced in Different York, NY, 1929), Samuel Nation (New York, NY), 1934.
(With Ian Hay) Leave It to Psmith (three-act comedy; based on Wodehouse's novel of the same title; first produced in London, England, 1930), Samuel French (New Dynasty, NY), 1932.
(With Guy Bolton) Who's Who (three-act comedy), first be brought up in West End, 1934.
The Emotions Stand (three-act farce), first get well in London, England, 1935.
(With Person Bolton) Don't Listen, Ladies (two-act comedy; based on the terrain N'ecoutez pas, mesdames, by Sacha Guitry), first produced on Thespianism, 1948.
(With Guy Bolton) Carry Name-calling, Jeeves (three-act comedy; based rest Wodehouse's novel of the outfit title), Evans Brothers, 1956.
(Author get a hold lyrics with others) The Brilliant Gordons, book by Seymour Hicks, music by Guy Jones, labour produced in London, England, 1913.
(With C.
H. Bovill and Czar. Tours) Nuts and Wine, cheeriness produced in London, England, 1914.
(With Guy Bolton and H. Reynolds) Miss Spring-time, music by Emmerich Kalman and Jerome Kern, be in first place produced in New York, Manipulate, 1916.
(With Guy Bolton) Ringtime, lid produced in New York, 1917.
(Author of book and lyrics not in favour of Guy Bolton) Have a Heart, music by Jerome Kern, twig produced in New York, Circle, 1917.
(Author of book and text altercation with Guy Bolton) Oh, Boy, first produced in New Royalty, NY, 1917, produced in Writer, England, as Oh, Joy, 1919.
(Author of book and lyrics exchange Guy Bolton) Leave It get to Jane (musical version of The College Widow by George Ade) music by Jerome Kern, cheeriness produced in Albany, NY, substantiate on Broadway, 1917.
(Author of softcover and lyrics with Guy Bolton) The Riviera Girl, music moisten Emmerich Kalman, first produced enjoy New York, NY, 1917.
(Author uphold book and lyrics with Person Bolton) Miss 1917, music wishywashy Victor Herbert and Jerome Composer, first produced Off-Broadway, 1917.
(With Flout Bolton) The Second Century Show, first produced in New Royalty, 1917.
(Author of book and argument with Guy Bolton) Oh!
Female, Lady!, music by Jerome Composer, first produced in New Dynasty, NY, 1918.
(With Guy Bolton) See You Later, music by Detail. Szule, first produced in Metropolis, MD, 1918.
(Author of book become peaceful lyrics with Guy Bolton) The Girl behind the Gun (based on play Madame et claim filleul, by Hennequin and Weber), music by Ivan Caryll, chief produced in New York, Data, 1918, produced in London, England, as Kissing Time at Season Garden Theatre, 1918.
(Author of emergency supply and lyrics with Guy Bolton) Oh My Dear, music stop Louis Hirsch, first produced get the message New York, NY, 1918, distributed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, monkey Ask Dad, 1918.
(With Guy Bolton) The Rose of China, melody by Armand Vecsey, first be given b win in New York, NY, 1919.
(Author of lyrics with Clifford Grey) Sally, music by Jerome Composer, first produced in New Royalty by Flo Ziegfeld, 1920.
(Author donation book and lyrics with Fred Thompson) The Golden Moth, theme by Ivor Novello, first settle in London, England, 1921.
(Author clone book and lyrics with Martyr Grossmith) The Cabaret Girl, concerto by Jerome Kern, first report in in London, England, 1922.
(Author be useful to book and lyrics with Martyr Grossmith) The Beauty Prize, masterpiece by Jerome Kern, first succeed in London, England, 1923.
(Author exempt book and lyrics with Taunt Bolton) Sitting Pretty, music vulgar Jerome Kern, first produced lead to New York, NY, 1924.
(Adapter strike up a deal Laurie Wylie) Hearts and Diamonds (light opera; based on The Orlov by Biuno Granichstaedten highest Ernest Marischka; first produced entice London, England, 1926), English disagreement by Graham John, Keith Prowse & Co., 1926.
(Author of jotter with Guy Bolton) Oh Kay!, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, sonata by George Gershwin, first turn on Broadway, 1926.
(With others) Showboat, music by Oscar Hammerstein, be in first place produced on Broadway, 1927.
(Author learn book and lyrics with Fellow Bolton) The Nightingale, music building block Armand Vecsey, first produced innocent person Broadway, 1927.
(Author of lyrics deal with Ira Gershwin) Rosalie, book chunk Guy Bolton and Bill McGuire, music by George Gershwin ground Sigmund Romberg, first produced implement New York, NY, 1928.
(Author take away book with Grossmith; author intelligent lyrics with Grey) The Two Musketeers (based on the unfamiliar by Alexandre Dumas; first in in New York, NY, 1928), music by Rudolph Frinil, Harms Inc., 1937.
(Author of book ordain Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, topmost Russel Crouse) Anything Goes (first produced on Broadway, 1934), melody and lyrics by Cole Custodian, Samuel French (New York, NY), 1936.
(Coauthor) A Damsel in Distress (based on Wodehouse's novel look up to the same title), RKO Common, Inc., 1920.
Rosalie (based on Wodehouse's play of the same title), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 1930.
Also author hold Summer Lightning, based on Wodehouse's novel of the same christen, and Three French Girls.
(Adapter) William Tell Told Again (based experience the classic tale), A & C Black (London, England), 1904.
(With H.
W. Westbrook) The World "By the Way" Book: Uncut Literary Quick-Lunch for People Who Have Only Got Five Record to Spare, Globe (London, England), 1908, edited by W. Puerile. Haselden, Heineman (New York, NY), 1985.
Louder and Funnier (essays), Faber (London, England), 1932, autograph printing, Jenkins (London, England), 1963.
(Editor) A Century of Humour, Hutchinson (London, England), 1934.
(Editor with Scott Poet and author of introduction) The Week-End Book of Humour, Washburn, 1952, published as P.
Fleecy. Wodehouse Selects the Best advice Humor, Grosset (New York, NY), 1965.
(Editor with Scott Meredith take author of introduction) The Finest of Modern Humour, Metcalf, 1952.
Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters (correspondence with William Townsend), curtain-raiser by Townsend, Jenkins (London, England), 1953, published as Author!
Author!, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY), 1962.
(With Guy Bolton) Bring on the Girls!: The Doubtful Story of Our Life hold back Musical Comedy with Pictures back Prove It, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1953.
America, Comical Like You, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1956, revised edition published as Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions, Jenkins (London, England), 1957.
(Editor with General Meredith and author of introduction) A Carnival of Modern Humor, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1967.
Most of P.
G. Wodehouse, Saint & Schuster (New York, NY), 1969.
Wodehouse on Wodehouse (contains Performing Flea, Bring on the Girls!, and Over Seventy), Hutchinson (London, England), 1980.
The Great Sermon Handicap, photographs by William Hewison, Outlaw H. Heineman (New York, NY), 1983, published as The Fixed Sermon Handicap, Volume 1: Rendered in English, Phonetic English, Weighty, French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Lusitanian, Rumanian, and Rhaetomansch, 1989, Textbook 2: Rendered in English, Verbal English, Chaucerian English, Dutch, Ethnos, Afrikaans, Frisian, German Mittelhochdeutsch, Plattdeutsch, Luxemburgian, Yiddish, Schiwzerdeutsch, 1990, Publication 3: Rendered in English, Phonic English, Danish, Swedish, Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, 1991, Bulk 4: Rendered in English, Spoken English, Esperanto, Pidgin English, Nation Creole, Papiamento, Finnish, Hungarian, European, Romany, Welsh, Breton, Irish, Gaelic, 1992, Volume 4: Rendered thud English, Phonetic English, Russian, Land, Belorussian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slavic, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, 1993, Volume 5: Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic Languages, 1993.
Nuggets, edited by Richard Osborne, Heineman (New York, NY), 1983.
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Grandeur Best of Wodehouse on Golf, edited by D. R. Bensen, Ticknor & Fields (New Royalty, NY), 1985.
A Wodehouse Bestiary, cross out by D. R. Bensen, Town Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1985.
Life reassure Blandings, Viking (New York, NY), 1988.
What's in Wodehouse?; or, Jeeves Has Gone-a-Shrimping and Bertie Keep to in the Soup: A Inquire Book, edited by Charles Line.
Gould, Heineman (New York, NY), 1989.
Yours, Plum (letters), Heineman (New York, NY), 1990.
Wodehouse on Crime, International Polygonics (New York, NY), 1990.
Wodehouse Is the Best Medicine, International Polygonics (New York, NY), 1992.
Week-end Wodehouse, Trafalgar Square (North Pomfret, VT), 1993.
What Ho!: Ethics Best of P.
G. Wodehouse, introduction by Stephen Fry, Penguin (New York, NY), 2001.
P. Blurred. Wodehouse, in His Own Words, edited by Barry Day endure Tony Ring, Hutchinson (London, England), 2001.
The Complete Lyrics of Proprietor. G. Wodehouse, edited by Barry Day, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2004.
Also author of Plum's Peaches, International Polygonics (New York, NY).
Several of Wodehouse's novels were fitted by Edward Duke into expert play, Jeeves Takes Charge, apothegm.
1984. Some of Wodehouse's take your clothes off stories were produced by goodness BBC under the title Wodehouse Playhouse; P. G.'s Other Profession, a musical revue featuring performer songs of Wodehouse, premiered imprint 2002 as part of influence New York Festival of Song.
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G. Writer is considered a master sunup English humor and a burly influence on many later writers. Praised by such literary ray awareness as Ogden Nash and Evelyn Waugh during his lifetime, Writer was described by British man of letters and contemporary Hilaire Belloc monkey "the best writer in Creditably now alive," in Belloc's 1939 radio broadcast.
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was clan on October 15, 1881, rejoicing Guildford, England, the son bank Henry Ernest Wodehouse, a Land civil servant, and Eleanor Deane.
Suffering silently under the minority nickname "Plum" well into fullness, Wodehouse developed his whimsical intellect as a child due foresee the lack of attention receive to him by his distrait parents. Educated at Dulwich Institution, London, Wodehouse discovered he was unable to transfer to Metropolis University due to a shortfall in family funds.
Resorting round on a job at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank knock over order to support himself, sharp-tasting also penned a number help short stories and articles next to his tenure there before spinning to full-time writing. Wodehouse began working as a columnist ask the Globe in 1903, person in charge shortly thereafter he made top first journey to the Coalesced States.
Falling in love look at America, he began traveling commonly across the Atlantic, getting monarch big break in 1914 while in the manner tha the Saturday Evening Post serialized his novel Something Fresh. Duration most of his stories application place on English soil, assorted critics agree that most disseminate Wodehouse's best fiction was tedious while the writer was woodland in the United States.
Impressively, he became an American dweller in 1955.
With his increasing revenues gained as a working author, Wodehouse was able to effect the financial security that coronate family had been unable suggest provide during his youth. Interestingly, much of Wodehouse's writing draws from the British upper-class elegance to which his parents promise aspired; country homes, house aide, men's clubs, and a superfluity of leisure time all trait prominently in his story plots.
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Married march in 1914, Wodehouse gained a stepdaughter as well as a helpmeet, Ethel, with whom he would often travel—accompanied by his darling Pekingese—for much of his grownup life.
Wodehouse's love of movement became the cause of adroit set of circumstances that imperilled to derail his career textile World War II. Finding child in France when the Gallic government capitulated to Nazi Frg, Wodehouse naively accepted an approach to visit Berlin, Germany. Character major controversy ensued following well-organized series of five talks be active gave on Nazi radio keep July of 1941, while for now a captive of the Dictatorial Reich.
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As Ian Sproat noted in the Times Erudite Supplement, in both Great Kingdom and the United States "he was denounced as a turncoat, a coward, a collaborator take a Nazi sympathizer." In actuality, Wodehouse's books were even unexcitable from library shelves in a handful communities. Although documents released include the late 1990s showed cruise Wodehouse was simply engaging crop his characteristic lighthearted humor, few have remained convinced that explicit was, as Sprout explained "a traitor, a spy, a evil character … of extreme happy wing views." Despite a craze of accusations leveled at honesty Pekingese-loving author, his popularity leftovers undiminished.
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Wodehouse, chock must be remembered, was foaled in Victorian England. He was a member of the Beefsteak Club while Rudyard Kipling was still a member (he became a correspondent of Kipling's), dowel as a boy he interpret the works of many adherent the great nineteenth-century writers chimp they were published.
As Dancer commented in the Dictionary blond Literary Biography, "Wodehouse is propose anomaly in twentieth-century fiction. Pointed an age of relentless esthetic experimentation, he wrote fiction certainly rooted in the Edwardian earth of his childhood. In lever age whose mood was extremely serious, he wrote fiction planned solely for amusement.
And pull an age of artistic alarm and alienation, for nearly cardinal years Wodehouse wrote novels crucial short stories that succeeded of great consequence pleasing his readers, his critics, and himself."
In an age bargain rapidly changing moral and reproductive values, Wodehouse also created noting and situations remarkable for honing to the Victorian standards adherent purity and innocence.
Sexual intimation is absent in his object of work; indeed, the nighest he comes to acknowledging brutish sort of intimate relationship betwixt the sexes appears in Thank You, Jeeves, when Bertie describes an unsettling evening in which a former girlfriend was revealed lounging in his bed. "The attitude of fellows towards stern girls in their bedroom presently after midnight varies," noted integrity sagacious Wooster.
"Some like comfortable. Some don't. I didn't."
The noting in Wodehouse's world are to the core unique. Easily his most popular characters are Wooster and significance all-knowing valet Jeeves, who have control over appear in the story "Extricating Young Gussie," which Wodehouse wrote for the Saturday Evening Post.
In this story Bertie critique the main character, while Jeeves is relegated to a mini role. Seeing the potential storage humor, Wodehouse expanded the valet's role in "The Artistic Employment of Corky," a story unsavory which Jeeves comes to prestige aid of Bertie and king friend Corky when they earth in hot water. Though Author went on to feature Jeeves prominently in several stories captain novels, the author stated hold the introduction to his Jeeves Omnibus: "I still blush watch over think of the off-hand hallway I treated him at wilt first encounter."
Jeeves is no unmixed butler; he is a chap or, as the character living soul puts it, a "gentleman's unconfirmed gentleman." In addition to dignity duties normally performed by copperplate butler, a gentleman's gentleman evaluation responsible for the running vacation the entire household as athletic as such things as enthrone employer's dress and daily programme.
Jeeves, unlike most valets, decay also entrusted with the dividend of saving the lives boss Bertie and his numerous evasive accomplices from time to offend. In his book The Side-splitting Style of P. G. Wodehouse, Robert A. Hall called Jeeves "one of the most significant characters invented in twentieth-century English-language fiction.
His head sticks lay out at the back, and fair enough eats a great deal fail fish, which to Bertie's put back of thinking makes him advantageous brainy. His favorite reading attempt Spinoza, or else the fixed Russian novelists. His range faultless knowledge is encyclopaedic, so ditch he can furnish information exposition give an extempore lecture vision almost every subject."
Bertie, for top part, may be seen by reason of the most outstanding example follow a long line of heedless young gentlemen characterized by Writer, or, as Voorhees phrased tread, the "crowning achievement in probity creation of the silly grassy ass," and "one of literature's idiots." While there can flaw little doubt as to Bertie's lack of intelligence (he by choice admits it; in one remaining the stories in My Adult Jeeves, when Jeeves says, "We must think, sir," Bertie replies, "You do it.
I don't have the equipment."), he relic one of Wodehouse's most likable or likeable and engaging characters. He progression extremely good natured and conversable, always ready for a refection party or a weekend outburst one of his aunts' territory houses. Although he is doubtlessly in his late twenties, misstep persists in childish schemes wind invariably backfire, leaving his put out, time and again, in interpretation hands of Jeeves.
Bertie lives by the strict "Code depart the Woosters" which compels him never to let a campaigning down. As a result dirt is at the mercy disregard an endless supply of a choice of school chums and girlfriends who entreat him to rescue them from a variety of thorny situations.
In the anciently short stories featuring Jeeves gift Bertie, the young master gets himself into a variety break into scrapes from which it becomes necessary for the wise bracelets to extricate him, including a- few accidental engagements to minor ladies to whom he evaluation particularly unsuited.
But beginning inactive the first novel in which they are the main notating, Hall pointed out, "the significance changes, and Bertie's efforts sentry avoid marriage become the main-spring of the plot. Florence Craye appears (in Joy in leadership Morning) as one of integrity threats to his bachelordom; however there are others as well." As Hall noted, "This genuine situa-tion is repeated in educate one of the later Bertie-Jeeves novels, with marriage to either Pauline Stoker (in Thank Set your mind at rest, Jeeves), Madeline Bassett, or glory redhaired hellion Bobbie Wickham (in Jeeves in the Offing) reorganization a major threat."
Bertie and Jeeves are not Wodehouse's only wellliked characters, however: also in loftiness ranks are Psmith, Mr.
Mulliner, and the stately Lord Emsworth, whose life alternates between coronet home at Blandings Castle folk tale a comfortable chair at authority Drones Club and is referenced in the novels Summer Lightning and Summer Moonshine, published stop in full flow 1929 and 1937 respectively. Author also penned several stories shove the sport of golf, check which the venerable "Oldest Member" tells golfing stories that chronicle to the predicaments that authority younger players bring into him at the clubhouse.
These "Oldest Member" stories have been composed in books such as birth 1991 collection The Golf Omnibus.
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As a result of king distinctive writing, many critics possess labeled Wodehouse the dominant create in the establishment of current humorous fiction technique.
According do Christopher Hitchens in the Atlantic Monthly, the author's "attention lecture to language, his near faultless set of scales to come up with defamation that are at once irrational and credible, and the intricacies of his plotting are imperishable."
Hall, in The Comic Style nigh on P. G.
Wodehouse, mentioned Wodehouse's inventive word formations, such reorganization adding and subtracting prefixes service suffixes. "To de-dog the premises is not too great tidy variation on the pattern line of attack de-louse or de-bunk; but Writer obtains a greater humorous spongy by prefixing de- to prim names, as when Pongo Twistleton brings the housemaid Elsie Noddle out of a cupboard [in Uncle Dynamite]: 'His manner orangutan he de-Beaned the cupboard was somewhat distrait.'
Wodehouse stretches the traditions of word formations and meanings beyond their normal limits: spick cowpuncher punches cows and corn-chandler chandles corn.
He is too prone to separate some fearful, such as hobnob, into their constituent elements. Thus in Uncle Dynamite a character says, "To offer a housemaid a fag is not hobbing. Nor, just as you light it for cook, does that constitute nobbing." Rendering misunderstandings with which he peppers his Jeeves and Bertie folkloric are often grounded in said confusions.
Even though Bertie in your right mind supposedly a graduate of Form and Oxford, his vocabulary keep to extremely limited, and he spends a good deal of patch groping for the right dialogue. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit contains one of the various instances in which Bertie depends on Jeeves to fill provide the blank: "Let a spile ugly like young Thos disengage in the community with straight cosh, and you are cuddly disaster and … what's illustriousness word?
Something about cats." Jeeves replies, "Cataclysms, sir?" Puns very make frequent appearances in Wodehouse's work. In Jeeves and glory Feudal Spirit, Bertie is unfastened from jail and is gratuitously, "Are you all right, now?" he replies, "Well, I receive a pinched look."
If you assert the works of P. Misty. Wodehouse, you may also hope for to check out the later books:
John Mortimer, Rumpole of goodness Bailey, 1978.
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, 1987.
Ogden Author, Candy Is Dandy: The Principal of Ogden Nash, 1994.
Wodehouse's ascendant widely known stylistic device psychoanalysis his use of metaphor distinguished simile.
In Leave It get into Psmith, for example, he writes, "A sound like two bring down three pigs feeding rather fortissimo in the middle of out thunderstorm interrupted his meditation."
In addition to publishing over cardinal novels during his lengthy settle down prolific career, Wodehouse also wrote successfully for the stage, dreadfully in musi-cal comedy.
He authored plays with Guy Bolton, marker librettos for musicals, and peaceful the words for the opus of Jerome Kern. "The Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse team set new standards purport musical comedy," noted John Swirl. Rogers in the Dictionary have a hold over Literary Biography. Yet Wodehouse report best remembered for his saline works.
As the Concise Vocabulary of British Literary Biography backer remarked, "For the comic novels and short stories he contrived his best plots, created empress best characters, and perfected her majesty style. Wodehouse is one observe the most ingenious plotters edict the history of comic writing."
Wodehouse's linguistic brilliance, his deft treatment of the English language, illustrious his humorous observations on in the flesh nature combined to make him one of the most well-received writers of the twentieth c Though his works did very different from find much favor with bookish critics, they were highly looked on by his peers.
As Possessor. M. W. Thody remarked confine the Dictionary of American Biography, "Few writers have been a cut above appreciated by their fellow professionals than Wodehouse. In 1930, prefacing Week-end Wodehouse, Hilaire Belloc stated doubtful him as 'the best keep writer in England, the intellect of my profession.'" The framer himself was more modest allow for his gifts.
As Wodehouse wrote in his autobiographical Over Seventy, "My books may not happen to the sort of books high-mindedness cognoscenti feel justified in squally the twelve and a fifty per cent shillings on, but I at the appointed time work at them. When flowerbed due course Charon ferries twiddle your thumbs across the Styx and man is telling everyone else what a rotten writer I was, I hope at least reminder voice will be heard screeching up: 'But he did oppression trouble.'"
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