P.G. Wodehouse

Born

in Guildford, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

October 15, 1881

Died

February 14, 1975

Website

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

Genre

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 40 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 more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English litera ...more

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P.G. Wodehouse's Books

Average rating: 4.19 · 246,454 ratings · 16,995 reviews · 602 distinct works · Similar authors

	My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 23,617 ratings — published 1919 — 207 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) 4.28 avg rating — 13,724 ratings — published 1925 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) 4.36 avg rating — 15,523 ratings — published 1938 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6) 4.31 avg rating — 16,855 ratings — published 1934 — 184 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 12,810 ratings — published 1923 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (Jeeves, #13) 4.29 avg rating — 6,295 ratings — published 1963 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5) 4.26 avg rating — 9,937 ratings — published 1934 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4) 4.36 avg rating — 6,679 ratings — published 1930 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 4,927 ratings — published 1915 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11) 4.31 avg rating — 4,389 ratings — published 1954 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by P.G. Wodehouse

Jeeves (15 books)
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4.26 avg rating — 150,429 ratings

The Drones Club (7 books)
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4.19 avg rating — 37,700 ratings

Blandings Castle (12 books)
by P.G. Wodehouse
4.22 avg rating — 34,823 ratings

Psmith (4 books)
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4.17 avg rating — 11,205 ratings

Mr. Mulliner (3 books)
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4.11 avg rating — 10,078 ratings

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Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse

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

tags: friendship, literature

4317 likes

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

tags: brains, marriage

1969 likes

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

tags: humor, love

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Polls

What work of fiction would you like to read in June?

Save Me The Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald

6 votes, 37.5%

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

5 votes, 31.3%

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

2 votes, 12.5%

My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

2 votes, 12.5%

Rosa by Jonathan Rabb

1 vote, 6.3%

The Iron Heel by Jack London

0 votes, 0.0%

Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham

0 votes, 0.0%

16 total votes

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