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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's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin - Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).]]> male Guildford, Surrey, England 1881/10/15 1975/02/14 16387 1585673927 9781585673926 137 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722790m/16387.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722790s/16387.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16387.Carry_On_Jeeves 4.27 1660 A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks—who starred in the film version—and concerns a young man, his love life, and a burglary. Famiiliar Wodehouse characters from both sides of the ocean make appearances. Meanwhile, in Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everything—but finds himself caught in a series of international events which will, if he doesn't put a stop to it, leave him wearing the sissy uniform of the American ambassador to Paris. Summer Moonshine involves Sir Buckstone Abbott trying to sell what is probably the ugliest home in England, as well as a complicated love quadrangle and Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of stories in which Jeeves take charge and a familiar bevy of individuals appeal to him to solve their problems—and are never disappointed.

]]> 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1948 105986 1841591009 9781841591001 172 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171561178m/105986.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171561178s/105986.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105986.The_Code_of_the_Woosters 4.38 1557 ]]> 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1938 16396 0140284125 9780140284126 91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722806m/16396.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722806s/16396.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16396.The_Inimitable_Jeeves 4.22 1404
Bertie's friend Bing falls in love with every other woman he meets, from Mabel, the waitress at the bun shop, to the Amazonian Honoria Glossop (whom Aunt Agatha has earmarked for Bertie). Naturally there are obstacles to be overcome - the matter of allowances, class prejudices and a lack of revolutionary tendencies. Rely on Jeeves's superb brain-power to emancipate Bertie and Bing from the tightest of corners.

"P. G. Wodehouse at his shining best." --John Mortimer]]> 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1923 18035 140690483X 9781406904833 88 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166855734m/18035.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166855734s/18035.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18035.Right_Ho_Jeeves 4.32 1254 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1925 16379 0140059024 9780140059021 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722760m/16379.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722760s/16379.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16379.Life_with_Jeeves 4.38 1071 Right Ho, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves and Very Good, Jeeves.]]> 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1983 16392 1585674346 9781585674343 86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722792m/16392.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722792s/16392.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16392.Thank_You_Jeeves 4.28 1043 A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family-a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave It to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable Mr. Mulliner. Meanwhile, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves.]]> 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1934 16415 1400079608 9781400079605 78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722842m/16415.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722842s/16415.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16415.Leave_It_to_Psmith 4.20 795 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1923 16382 1585677469 9781585677467 36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722761m/16382.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166722761s/16382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16382.Very_Good_Jeeves_ 4.35 736 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1930 12550 184159105X 9781841591056 46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504510m/12550.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504510s/12550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12550.Stiff_Upper_Lip_Jeeves 4.25 734 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1963 60507 0060972823 9780060972820 50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170542792m/60507.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170542792s/60507.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60507.Jeeves_in_the_Morning 4.30 686 7963 4.21 28368 2671 1990