P.G. Wodehouse

Author profile

born

October 15, 1881 in Guildford, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

died

February 14, 1975

gender

male

website

http://www.wodehouse.co.uk/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Humor

influences

J.B. Morton

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. 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 prewar 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 Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature'...more

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Books by P.G. Wodehouse

Average rating: 4.19 · 77,615 ratings · 6,624 reviews · 326 distinct works

	The Code of the Woosters 4.35 avg rating — 5,278 ratings — published 1938 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Carry On, Jeeves 4.25 avg rating — 4,937 ratings — published 1925 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Right Ho, Jeeves 4.28 avg rating — 5,200 ratings — published 1934 — 109 editions	My rating:
	The Inimitable Jeeves 4.23 avg rating — 4,513 ratings — published 1923 — 42 editions	My rating:
	My Man Jeeves 4.08 avg rating — 3,909 ratings — published 1919 — 128 editions	My rating:
	Thank You, Jeeves 4.25 avg rating — 3,266 ratings — published 1934 — 36 editions	My rating:
	Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 4.27 avg rating — 2,252 ratings — published 1963 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Very Good, Jeeves! 4.33 avg rating — 2,211 ratings — published 1930 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Life with Jeeves 4.37 avg rating — 1,920 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4) 4.25 avg rating — 1,982 ratings — published 1923 — 19 editions	My rating:

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Series by P.G. Wodehouse

Jeeves (15 books)
by P.G. Wodehouse

4.26 avg rating — 47,087 ratings

Blandings Castle (12 books)
by P.G. Wodehouse

4.21 avg rating — 10,350 ratings

Psmith (4 books)
by P.G. Wodehouse

4.14 avg rating — 3,761 ratings

Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

tags: humor , love

537 people liked it

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship , literature

511 people liked it

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

tags: hair , humor , redheads

245 people liked it

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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

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I, Claudius by Robert Graves

4 votes, 21.1%

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

3 votes, 15.8%

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

2 votes, 10.5%

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal by J.R. Ackerley

1 vote, 5.3%

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson

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Meet Mr. Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse

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