Wodehouse, P.G.

P.G. Wodehouse was an extremely prolific writer of very English comedy. Most of his stories are period pieces as well. He is most famopus for Jeeves and Wooseter, but I also like his short stories, his school stories, and the random doings of various Britons in the early 20th century.

There is nobody quite like Wodehouse. Give him a try.


****       Blandings   Amazon
Fiction

Blandings refers to a bunch of stories and novels which are set at Blandings Castle with mostly the same set of characters. Wodehouse settled into a crowd here; I find these stories good but seldom of his best.


****       Etc   Amazon
Fiction

There are scores or hundreds of Wodehouse books. Go check out the Wodehouse shelf at any good bookstore and see. If you you'll get pages of entries, 100 entries per page.


*****       Jeeves   Amazon
Fiction

Jeeves and Wooster are paired up in many short stories and novels. Jeeves is the perfect butler who is also a genius as well as an infallible judge of people and character. He furthermore seems to posess a crystal ball or some such. Bertie Wooster is a not-so-bright member of the aristocracy. He and his idly rich buddies (from the Drones Club, usually) are constantly in trouble, trying to avoid marriage, or somehow or other in perpetual need of Jeeves saving assistance.

A good place to start is The Code of the Woosters or Life with Jeeves.



***       Mulliner   Amazon   Amazon(UK)
Fiction Shorts

Mr. Mulliner has countless relatives, all of whom seem to have zany lives full of merry mix-ups. Mr. Mulliner tells you about them.


****       School Stories   Amazon
Fiction

Wodehouse's early writings were about a few boys at English public schools. There are The Pothunters, The Gold Bat, Mike at Wrykyn, and we might as well include any story with Psmith in it.

The comedy is more subtle but the human angles more true. I liked all of these.