One thing about Wodehouse is he has layers of humour. If you learned/grew up with the Bible (KJV and/or Anglican Prayer book), Shakespeare and the classics then you'll find little asides that are hilarious but almost impossible to explain to people who have not done so
Many years ago, I saw a comment on a proposal to choose the best 100 novels of the twentieth century, to the effect that P.G. Wodehouse had written some number in the nineties, which left us only a handful of others to select. Even if we only count the 70-odd in the Wikipedia bibliography (spoiling the joke for the sake of pedantic accuracy, I confess), that still would make actually binging all of PGW rather a challenge!
I'm very fond of Wodehouse. And his schoolboy stories, like "Mike at Wrykyn," are still in print one hundred years later! That's an amazing achievement.
Well, that was a charming review, and I should have known that you were a Wodehouse fan! I must read some of these book you mentioned. Previously, I was completely innocent of them.
One thing about Wodehouse is he has layers of humour. If you learned/grew up with the Bible (KJV and/or Anglican Prayer book), Shakespeare and the classics then you'll find little asides that are hilarious but almost impossible to explain to people who have not done so
I Like Jerome K. Jerome, especially Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing about the dog). Hilarious!
Then there's Booth Tarkington, from this side of the Atlantic.
Many years ago, I saw a comment on a proposal to choose the best 100 novels of the twentieth century, to the effect that P.G. Wodehouse had written some number in the nineties, which left us only a handful of others to select. Even if we only count the 70-odd in the Wikipedia bibliography (spoiling the joke for the sake of pedantic accuracy, I confess), that still would make actually binging all of PGW rather a challenge!
I'm very fond of Wodehouse. And his schoolboy stories, like "Mike at Wrykyn," are still in print one hundred years later! That's an amazing achievement.
Well, that was a charming review, and I should have known that you were a Wodehouse fan! I must read some of these book you mentioned. Previously, I was completely innocent of them.