Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens commented, "there is not, and never will be, anything to touch him."
Wodehouse's characters are often eccentric, with peculiar attachments, such as to pigs (Lord Emsworth), newts (Gussie Fink-Nottle), antique silver (Bertie's Uncle Tom Travers), golf-collectables (numerous characters) or socks (Archibald Mulliner). His "mentally negligible" good-natured characters invariably make their lot worse by their half-witted schemes to improve a bad situation.
A key figure in most Wodehouse stories is a "fixer" whose genius soars above the incompetent blather and crude bluster of most of the other characters, Jeeves being the best known example. Other characters in this vein are Lord Ickenham ("Uncle Fred") and Galahad Threepwood, who perform much the same role in the Blandings Castle stories—though never both at the same time—and Psmith, who does the same thing in the stories that bear his name.
Wodehouse was known for his consummate skill at their detailed construction and development. Typically, a relative or friend makes some demand that forces a character into a bizarre situation from which it seems impossible to recover, only to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale.
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Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, humorous, English Humorous stories, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Jeeves (fictitious character), fiction, Wooster, bertie (fictitious character), fiction, Classic Literature, Blandings Castle (England : Imaginary place), Jeeves (Fictitious character), Valets, Bertie Wooster (Fictitious character), Nobility, Single men, English literature, Humorous stories, English, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction in English, Large type books, Humorous stories, Wodehouse, p. g. (pelham grenville), 1881-1975, Social life and customs, Upper classPlaces
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), Bertie Wooster (Fictitious character), Jeeves (Fictitious character), Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Aunt Agatha, Charteris, Clarence, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Corky, Eustace Brackenstall, Galahad Threepwood, Godfrey Norton, Guy Bolton (1884-), Irene Adler, Jack Croker, Jim Thompson, Lady Brackenstall, Lord Emsworth, P. G. Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville) (1881-1975), P.G. Wodehouse, P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), Peyton FarquharTime
20th century, 1920's, Early 20th century, Interwar years, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 1888, 1890-1910, 1915, 19th century, American Civil War, Civil War, World War II
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- Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975
- P G. 1881-1975 Wodehouse
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