Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as 'Plum') wrote about
seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over
seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest
20th-century writer of humour in the English language.
Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves,
Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord
Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His
stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable
Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the
ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known
as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming
raconteur of The Angler's Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf
Club.
In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'having made an
outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the
world'. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in
1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine's Day.
Bertie and Jeeves are at their best in The Code of the
Woosters.
Wodehouse is the funniest writer that is, the most resourceful and
unflagging deliverer of fun that the human race, a glum crowd, has
yet produced.
Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to
release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome
than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight
in.--Evelyn Waugh
You should read Wodehouse when you re well, and when you re poorly;
when you re travelling, and when you re not; when you re feeling
clever, and when you re feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts
your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already.--Lynne
Truss
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