P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. 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.

Writings

For a complete list, see List of books by P. G. Wodehouse.

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Wodehouse was a prolific author, writing ninety-six books in a career spanning from 1902 to 1975. His works include novels, collections of short stories, and a musical comedy. Many characters and locations appear repeatedly throughout his short stories and novels, leading readers to classify his work by "series".

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1902 - 1975

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• The Blandings books are about the upper-class inhabitants of the fictional Blandings Castle, including the eccentric Lord Emsworth, obsessed by his prize-winning pig, the "Empress of Blandings".
• Something Fresh (U.S. title: Something New) (1915)
• Leave it to Psmith (1923)
• Summer Lightning (1929)
• Heavy Weather (1933)
• Lord Emsworth and Others (U.S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings) (1937)
• Sunset at Blandings (1977)
• The wealthy, foppish Bertie Wooster narrates a number of stories and novels that recount the improbable and unfortunate situations in which he and his friends find themselves, and the manner in which his ingenious valet Jeeves is always able to extricate them. Collectively called "the Jeeves stories", they are Wodehouse's most famous. The Jeeves stories are a valuable compendium of pre-World War II English slang in use, perhaps most closely mirrored in American literature by the work of Damon Runyon.
• Right Ho, Jeeves (1922)
• Thank You, Jeeves (1934)
• Much Obliged, Jeeves
• The Code of the Woosters (1939)
• Joy in the Morning (U.S. title: Jeeves in the Morning) (1946)
• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (U.S. title: Bertie Wooster Sees It Through) (1954)
• Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (U.S. title: The Catnappers) (1974)
• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
• Mr Mulliner is a long-winded pub raconteur who tells outrageous stories about his family.
• Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927)
• Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1929)
• Mulliner Nights (1933)
• Many stories were built around the sport of golf, a pursuit which all characters involved consider the only important part of life. The Oldest Member tells most of them.
• The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)
• The Heart of a Goof (1926)
• Psmith is an ingenious jack-of-all-trades. Some of the Psmith stories overlap with the Blandings stories in that Psmith works for Lord Emsworth, lives at Blandings, and becomes a friend of Freddie Threepwood.
• Mike and Psmith (1909)
• Psmith in the City (1910)
• Psmith Journalist (1915)
• Leave it to Psmith (1923)
• School stories
• The Pothunters (1902)
• A Prefect's Uncle (1903)
• The Gold Bat (1904)
• Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is a scheming character, always looking to enlarge his income.
• Love Among the Chickens (1906)
• Ukridge (1924)
• Uncle Fred:
• Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
• Uncle Dynamite
• Cocktail Time (1958)
• Other:
• Piccadilly Jim (1917)
• Laughing Gas (1936)
• Quick Service (1940)
• Performing Flea (Autobiography, 1951)

Both the Blandings and Jeeves stories have been adapted as BBC television series: the Jeeves series has been adapted twice, once in the 1960s (for the BBC) with Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster, and Dennis Price as Jeeves, and again in the 1990s (by Granada Television for ITV), with the title Jeeves and Wooster, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. David Niven and Arthur Treacher also starred as Bertie and Jeeves, respectively, in a few films made in the 1930s.

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BBC - Ian Carmichael - Dennis Price - Granada Television - ITV - Jeeves and Wooster - Hugh Laurie - Stephen Fry - David Niven - Arthur Treacher

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