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