P. G. Wodehouse
(1881 - 1975)
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE 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 that lasted 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 a pre- and post-World War I English upper class society, reflecting his birth, education and youthful writing career.
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Jeeves (1923)
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Fish Preferred (1929)
Galahad Threepwood is ensconced at Blandings Castle working on his memoirs while around him Ronnie Fish is stealing the Empress and various affairs of the heart are going awry.
French Leave (1959)
The story of three American sisters and their adventures in France. Loosely based on a play, ‘Three Blind Mice’ by Guy Bolton.
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French Leave (2013)
The story of three American sisters and their adventures in France. Based on a play ‘Three Blind Mice’ by Guy Bolton.
Frozen Assets (2010)
When Edmund Biffen Pike inherits his godfather’s millions, it’s on condition he is not arrested - something he finds it hard to avoid as he has a compulsion to sock every policeman he meets. Fortunately his sister Kay and Jerry Shoesmith rally round.
Full Moon (2006)
Matrimonial games are afoot at Blandings Castle, to the 9th Earl’s disgust.
Galahad at Blandings (1965)
Gally, as he is known to his friends, displays a sure hand in reuniting sundered hearts and fending off predatory old flames to bring peace once more to the sacred abode of the Empress of Blandings.
Galahad at Blandings (2009)
Gally, as he is known to his friends, displays a sure hand in reuniting sundered hearts and fending off predatory old flames to bring peace once more to the sacred abode of the Empress of Blandings.
A Gentleman of Leisure (2003)
A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true love does not run smooth. The novel was made into a play ‘After the Show’ by Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook and filmed several times.
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Golf Without Tears (1924)
Ten short stories involving golf narrated by the Oldest Member.
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He Rather Enjoyed It (1926)
A collection of ten short stories about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, that self absorbed promoter of the impossible.
Heavy Weather (1933)
A sequel to Summer Lightning, Gally’s memoirs and the Empress are both in danger of theft by scheming visitors to Blandings Castle.
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Heavy Weather (2002)
A sequel to Summer Lightning, Gally’s memoirs and the Empress are both in danger of theft by scheming visitors to Blandings Castle.
Hot Water (1932)
A wealthy American woman who wants a ‘dry’ senator to get her husband appointed ambassador to France is in possession of a letter the senator wrote to his bootlegger, a gang of jewelry thieves are interested in the woman’s diamonds, and two or three sets of lovers all foregather at the French resort of St. Roque.
Hot Water (2003)
A wealthy American woman who wants a ‘dry’ senator to get her husband appointed ambassador to France is in possession of a letter the senator wrote to his bootlegger, a gang of jewelry thieves are interested in the woman’s diamonds, and two or three sets of lovers all foregather at the French resort of St. Roque.
Read online at archive.org.
How Right You Are, Jeeves (1960)
Bertie reads the engagement announcements in the Times and discovers to his horror that he is once again engaged to Bobbie Wickham. There are wheels within wheels of course and to cap it all Jeeves is off on his annual vacation so Bertie must struggle alone against overwhelming odds that include his old headmaster as well as Sir Roderick Glossop the alienist. Can Jeeves be fetched in time to save the day?
If I Were You (1931)
In a tip of the hat to Gilbert and Sullivan, P.G. Wodehouse presents Anthony, Fifth Earl of Droitwich and hairdresser Syd Price who may or may not have been switched by the nanny.
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If I Were You (2013)
In a tip of the hat to Gilbert and Sullivan, P.G. Wodehouse presents Anthony, Fifth Earl of Droitwich and hairdresser Syd Price who may or may not have been switched by the nanny.
Indiscretions of Archie (1921)
Archie, a bankrupt Englishman brings his wife to her native New York to seek her father’s blessing (and a dowry would also be nice) and immediately gets into a row with a hotelier who turns out to be his father-in-law. Read online at archive.org.
Indiscretions of Archie (2009)
Archie, a bankrupt Englishman brings his wife to her native New York to seek her father’s blessing (and a dowry would also be nice) and immediately gets into a row with a hotelier who turns out to be his father-in-law.
Jeeves (1923)
A collection of short stories about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. The image above is from the Penguin Books edition. READ NOW.