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	P. G. Wodehouse - Free Online Library
		Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse, a British judge in Hong Kong, and Eleanor (Deane) Wodehouse.
		Wodehouse was attacked in England, and he was not able to return to his home country for fear of prosecution.
		Wodehouse's father did not approve of his writing, and after graduating in 1900 he worked two years at the London branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
	wodehouse.thefreelibrary.com (998 words)

	P. G. Wodehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wodehouse, called "Plum" by most family and friends, was born prematurely to Eleanor Wodehouse whilst she was visiting Guildford.
		Wodehouse was a prolific author, writing ninety-six books in a career spanning from 1902 to 1975.
		Described by Sean O'Casey as "English literature's performing flea", Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wodehouse (1139 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Jeeves vs. Pooh
		Wodehouse, on the other hand, was famous for a steady stream of brilliant comic novels, written in a style, a unique whip-up of vernacular and high-flown allusion, that he had been honing for decades.
		Wodehouse's run-in with the 20th century -- the one actual Event in his life -- was in the strictest sense tragic: His greatest artistic gift, his essential levity, was mercilessly revealed as his greatest moral flaw, and the beauty of his comic style was reduced to a ghastly mechanical flippancy.
		P.G. Wodehouse, naive in politics, was precise and prolific in his writing, and left a legacy of the unforgettable characters of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/12/26/jeeves_vs_pooh?pg=full (1686 words)

	Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
		Wodehouse, who knew just what was expected of authors, was used to having to apologise for a childhood that was "as normal as rice-pudding" and a life that consisted of little more than "sitting in front of the typewriter and cursing a bit".
		Particular to Wodehouse are the transferred epithets: "I lit a rather pleased cigarette", or, "I pronged a moody forkful of eggs and b".
		Wodehouse's three great achievements are plot, character and language, and the greatest of these, by far, is language.
	www.pgwodehousebooks.com /fry.htm (2721 words)

	The genius of Wodehouse by Roger Kimball
		Wodehouse did have a classical education, but he himself drew attention to the importance of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, “that indispensable adjunct to literary success.” He was not a scholar, much less was he an intellectual: a class of people that he rather feared and disliked but that he nevertheless managed to entertain mightily.
		Donaldson describes Wodehouse’s mother as a “stupid woman” whose “actions continually suggest that her emotions were as undeveloped as her intellect.” She certainly seems not to have been overly burdened by the maternal instinct.
		Wodehouse (the name, by the way, is pronounced “Woodhouse”) was amazingly prolific; as Frances Donaldson notes, no one knows the exact extent of his output because, when young, he often wrote under other people’s names or noms de plume.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/19/oct00/wodeh.htm (4468 words)

	Articles By ShashiTharoor
		Americans know Wodehouse from re-runs of earlier TV versions of his short stories on programmes with names such as Masterpiece Theatre, but these have a limited audience, even though some of his funniest stories were set in Hollywood and he lived the last three decades of his life in Remsenberg, Long Island.
		Part of Wodehouse's appeal to Indians certainly lies in the uniqueness of his style, which inveigled us into a sort of conspiracy of universalism: his humour was inclusive, for his mock-serious generalisations were, of course, as absurd to those he was ostensibly writing about as to us.
		Evelyn Waugh worshipped Wodehouse's penchant for tossing off original similes: "a soul as grey as a stevedore's undervest"; "her face was shining like the seat of a bus driver's trousers"; "a slow, pleasant voice, like clotted cream made audible"; "she looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression".
	www.shashitharoor.com /articles/guardian/woosters.html (2052 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Observer review: Wodehouse by Robert McCrum
		Wodehouse's upbringing was, of course, no more bleak and isolated than that of millions of his contemporaries and to interpret his life according to our contemporary moral and psychological shibboleths seems misguided to me. People judge their fortune not by absolutes, but by comparison with others.
		He concedes that Wodehouse's rare sunniness of outlook, optimism and refusal to allow darkness to shadow his life allowed him to 'cope' better than others, but still for him the childhood was not so much a breeze as an icy gale.
		Wodehouse's literary world has often been described as innocent, prelapsarian, paradisal, Elysian, idyllic, but he himself was fond of finding different ways of observing that every Eden contains a serpent.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/classics/0,6121,1297464,00.html (1181 words)

	Orwell defends Wodehouse
		Wodehouse was also censured for using (in the interview with Flannery) the phrase ‘whether Britain wins the war or not’, and he did not make things better by describing in another broadcast the filthy habits of some Belgian prisoners among whom he was interned.
		When Flannery met Wodehouse (released, but still under guard) at the Adlon Hotel in June 1941, he saw at once that he was dealing with a political innocent, and when preparing him for their broadcast interview he had to warn him against making some exceedingly unfortunate remarks, one of which was by implication slightly anti-Russian.
		Wodehouse was released two or three days before the invasion of the U.S.S.R., and at a time when the higher ranks of the Nazi party must have known that the invasion was imminent.
	www.thelooniverse.com /books/orwell.html (5566 words)

	The Russian Wodehouse Society :: wodehouse.ru
		Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881 in Guildford, the son of a civil servant, and educated at Dulwich College.
		Copyright Michel Kuzmenko (gmk), The Russian Wodehouse Society © 1996-2005.
		Wodehouse married in 1914 and took American citizenship in 1955.
	wodehouse.ru (370 words)

	P.G. Wodehouse, American Author - The most British of writers turns out to have been a Yank. By Robert McCrum
		Wodehouse tried to justify his actions by noting that the United States was not actually at war with Nazi Germany, but it was a terrible error of judgment for which he would pay for the rest of his life.
		Wodehouse, who always affected an amiable detachment from the world, liked to dismiss his two years in California as ludicrously overpaid exercises in time-wasting.
		The climax to the progressive Americanization of P.G. Wodehouse occurred in 1930 (and again in 1936) when he was invited by MGM to write film scripts in Hollywood.
	www.slate.com /?id=2064180 (1702 words)

	The Wodehouse Conservative
		Wodehouse is the conservative's Oscar Wilde--the key example of a most sweet frivolity, a landmark, a fixed point by which we navigate our way back and forth to the happy club where we join our friends for a drink and take in the pleasure of being alive.
		And when the apolitical Wodehouse was accused of treason for doing a series of radio spots on Berlin radio under Nazi occupation (they turned out to be wholly innocuous), his defenders Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Malcolm Muggeridge represented many a political stripe.
		They offer almost everything a reader for pleasure could want." Roger Kimball, in the New Criterion, recalled the moment "that I first acquainted myself with the sublime work of Sir Pelham Grenville," describing the Wodehouse habit as a "beneficent addiction."
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/727mvhkj.asp?pg=2 (702 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: P.G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner speaking
		Born in 1881, Wodehouse gave up working in a bank in 1902, and from then on he had a string of successes both in the book world and in the theatre (his first play opened in New York in 1911).
		The book of Wodehouse's which I have recently been reading consists of a number of short stories, as related by Mr Mulliner in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest.
		But the date shows in the spelling: we have to-day, and to-morrow, whereas today we would omit the hyphens; we have sha'n't, which is technically correct, but today we have dropped one of the apostrophes; and we have week end for weekend; and so forth.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2005/04/pg-wodehouse-mr-mulliner-speaking.html (1826 words)

	ROBERT A. HALL: The Persecution of P. G. Wodehouse
		The basic moral of the "Wodehouse case" is, not that it is undesirable to refrain from "hating in the plural," but that persons with such an out-look should be more aware than he was of the readiness of others to yield to emotionally based mass-hatreds or to exploit them for political purposes.
		We are told[3] that the American army used the Wodehouse talks, later during the war, as prize examples of subtle anti-German propaganda.
		Wodehouse] had said in his broadcasts, the papers reviled him and accused him - placing him on a par with the arch-traitor known as Lord Haw-Haw.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/7/3/Hall345-351.html (2180 words)

	The truth about P G Wodehouse & the Nazis
		Plack emphasized to me very strongly that the whole point of releasing Wodehouse, and persuading him to broadcast, was that he was not a Nazi sympathizer, that he was not a collaborator and that he was not a traitor.
		The files also showed enquiries as to whether Wodehouse might be entitled to receive Embassy rations of soap and cigarettes; and that the German military authorities had been requested by the Embassy to see that Wodehouse's villa at Le Touquet (where he had been living before the war) be kept in good order.
		The collected testimony of these witnesses showed poor Wodehouse to have been well intentioned throughout, and wholly innocent of all the charges, although, at different moments in the wretched saga, mistaken, foolish and naive.
	www.geocities.com /indeedsir/SproatTLS.htm (2198 words)

	Heil Wodehouse
		Wodehouse’s American fans had sent him numerous letters and food parcels, and he had wanted to thank them and to know he was all right.
		Wodehouse’s jewelry, loans from friends, the sale of the movie rights from one of Wodehouse’s novels to a Berlin film company, and from the sale of a short story to a French newspaper.
		In it, Connor called Wodehouse a rich playboy who had remained in Le Touquet to gamble, and was throwing a cocktail party when the Germans arrested him.
	yoyogod.20m.com /Heil.htm (3215 words)

	Wodehouse Biography
		Wodehouse is getting education at Dulwich College, where he is a member of school cricket team, (he will not loose his interest in the local cricket tournament for many years later!) Also he practises in boxing there.
		At age of 33 (1914) Pelham Grenville Wodehouse married Ethel Newton, 29, a widow whom he had met in New York eight weeks earlier.
		At that time Wodehouse meets people close to musicals circles, and wrote lyrics and takes part in creation of musical shows.
	ssmith.wodehouse.ru /biogeng.html (755 words)

	A Celebration of P G Wodehouse - Home Page
		P G Wodehouse is considered by many to be the master of the English comic novel, and writers as diverse as Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Hilaire Belloc, V S Pritchett, Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams have acknowledged him as one of the finest English prose writers of the twentieth century.
		Although most of Wodehouse's stories can be enjoyed just as they are, the depth of his comic talent becomes even more evident if one is able to recognise the very many allusions and quotations with which his work is packed.
		In fact, one of the characteristics of Wodehouse's style of humour is the manner in which he uses quotations — from the Bible, Shakespeare, the English classics, popular fiction, even from popular songs of his day — often mangling them in his own unique fashion.
	www.aowy95.dsl.pipex.com /Wodehouse/Index.html (679 words)

	USATODAY.com - Biographer humanizes the Wodehouse wit
		Wodehouse was enormously popular and well compensated for his books and song lyrics.
		Among the most endearing aspects of Wodehouse's character was his lifelong financial support for a boarding school pal whose literary dreams never panned out.
		In the end, McCrum pays Wodehouse the compliment of treating his work seriously without losing sight of the truth embodied in novelist Christopher Buckley's comment on Wodehouse: "It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster."
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2005-03-21-wodehouse_x.htm (922 words)

	P. G. Wodehouse Appreciation Page
		Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, lyrics, and essays, all with the same light touch of gentle satire.
		Throughout his stories, Wodehouse presents a view of the world which differs from -- his fans would say, improves upon -- the focus most people have.
		He is best known as the creator of the irredeemably dim and unflaggingly affable Bertie Wooster and his invincible valet Jeeves, but Wodehouse also produced multi-volume story cycles on Blandings Castle, Mr.
	www.smart.net /~tak/wodehouse.html (236 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Plum Sauce: A Wodehouse Companion: Books
		For the committed Wodehouse reader his books present a world entirely of their own with characters reappearing in cameos throughout the series of books stretching over seventy years.
		It offers character sketches of the rest of the Wodehouse cast from Gussie Fink Nottle to the chorus of Aunts and Drones, and witty plot summaries of all Wodehouse’s books.
		Wodehouse weaves such deliciously complex (yet simple) plots and the characters are drawn so quickly that this should be at the elbow of every dedicated fan.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0091885124 (792 words)

	The Wodehouse Society
		Our members include everyone from lifelong fans to people who have only recently discovered Wodehouse's works, from serious rare-book collectors to academic scholars of literature, and from those who go around warbling his songs to folks who didn't even know he was involved in musical theatre.
		Membership dues for The Wodehouse Society are US$20 per year (for one or two members at a single mailing address anywhere in the world) until January 1, 2006.
		For more information about Wodehouse and his works, we encourage you to join the discussions at PGWnet and/or the newsgroup alt.fan.wodehouse.
	www.wodehouse.org /tws.html (877 words)

	P.G. Wodehouse Books ... Blandings Library
		Wodehouse Collections!..The delightful tales of the ever-wise Jeeves, and Bertie, his bungling employer for whom Jeeves mind is kept constantly at work devising masterful plans to solve Bertie's unusual problems.
		As always, Wodehouse keeps us on the edge of our seats, waiting to see what's around the next corner, and in hysterics when we find out.
		Spicing the story with poetic thieves, suspicious secretaries, and lots of "old friends", Wodehouse achieves a tasteful blend of nonsensical perfection.
	www.readaloud.com /wodehouse.html (408 words)

	"Wodehouse Playhouse" (1975)
		Wodehouse loved to pierce the veneer of political correctness (in a light-hearted way) even then.
		Wodehouse should be introduced to a new generation of teenagers.
		I remember one show (this was almost 30 years ago, so please forgive my memory!) in which there was a manor house full of hunting enthusiasts, and they kept shocking a visiting vegetarian with their manic blood/gun lust.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072586 (316 words)

	Books in the Looniverse
		When Wodehouse died, among his books some 90 spiritualist works were found; it seems obvious he looked for a way to get in touch with her.
		According to Robert Crum in The Observer (June 17, 2002), in 1941 German barrister Michael Vermehren was asked, in Berlin, by Wodehouse to sue "that ghastly paper of Lord Beaverbrook, The Express" for libel, as he was being attacked in England as a traitor.
		It's the only Wodehouse work I know of that was written out of chronological order; it introduces the big schemer Ukridge (pronounce "Yewkridge") as a married man, who later appears in short stories having troubles with girls, creditors and aunts.
	www.thelooniverse.com /books/books.html (3283 words)

	Search Results for Wodehouse - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Wodehouse, Sir P.G. English-born comic novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, and playwright, best known as the creator of Jeeves, the supreme “gentleman's gentleman.” He wrote more than 90 books and more than 20 film...
		Offers arguments in defense of fellow writer P.G. Wodehouse, specifically his broadcasts on Nazi radio during World War II when he was a prosoner in Berlin and the subsequent protests in the British press."
		American playwright and librettist perhaps best known for his witty and articulate librettos, on which he collaborated with such notables as P.G. Wodehouse, George Middleton, and Fred Thompson.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Wodehouse&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (379 words)

	P G Wodehouse Bibliography
		Pelham (Plum) Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881 in Guildford, Surrey.
		FantasticFiction > Authors W > P G Wodehouse
		Having spent his early years in Hong Kong he was sent to Dulwich College and worked as a banker and journalist before embarking on a career as a prolific and popular writer.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/P_G_Wodehouse.htm (177 words)

	The Charlock's Shade: WODEHOUSE APOSTOLATE
		Neither of them was known for his humility, but when it came to Wodehouse both could not help but recognize in his work something unmatched and unspeakably superior.
		And there is probably no writer more appropriate for Catholic leisure than Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (pronounced 'Woodhouse'), in whose shadow even Dante would tremble for his unworthiness.
		Waugh had only the highest praise for Wodehouse, and merely to catalogue this praise would take a book.
	thecharlocksshade.typepad.com /the_charlocks_shade/2005/05/wodehouse_apost.html (1562 words)

	Technorati Tag: wodehouse
		[IMG cover of My Man Jeeves] Jeeves and Wooster and P. Wodehouse are all familiar names, but before now I've never taken the time to read any of...
		Hitler at the Crossroads: The situation in Germany had come up for discussion in the bar parlour of the Angler's Rest, and it was generally agreed...
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	www.technorati.com /tag/wodehouse (359 words)

	PG Wodehouse Fans
		What genre would you say Wodehouse is, if you were to pick one?
		Could Wodehouse have forgotten Psmith's name and couldn't be bothered to look it up?
		I have always assumed the Blandings stories to be unfilmable, but now realize that Nick Park is just the man for them, with Wallace as Lord Emsworth, and Gromit as George Cyrill Wellbeloved, his Lordship's expert pigman.
	www.livejournal.com /community/wodehouse (1447 words)

	Wodehouse - Alpha and Omega
		This website is sponsored by The Wodehouse Society (TWS) and is intended to encourage Wodehouse lovers all over the world to get in touch with one another.
		Wodehouse On Stage in the USA and Canada
		More information about TWS, including a list of regional chapters, information on how to join the society, and our next convention
	www.wodehouse.org (74 words)

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