P.G. Wodehouse
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born
October 15, 1881
died
February 14, 1975
gender
male
place of birth
Guildford, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
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 "En...more
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Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.27 — 1,575 ratings — published 1948 25 editions |
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The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.38 — 1,487 ratings — published 1938 31 editions |
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The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.22 — 1,338 ratings — published 1923 27 editions |
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Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.32 — 1,187 ratings — published 1925 48 editions |
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Life with Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.38 — 1,032 ratings — published 1983 |
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Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.29 — 990 ratings — published 1934 24 editions |
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Leave It to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.20 — 762 ratings — published 1923 19 editions |
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Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.36 — 706 ratings — published 1930 14 editions |
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.25 — 698 ratings — published 1963 22 editions |
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Jeeves in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse avg rating 4.31 — 662 ratings — published 1990 19 editions |
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"The voice of Love seemed to call me, but it was a wrong number."
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