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P.G. Wodehouse


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

Died
February 14, 1975

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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
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My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)

4.05 avg rating — 46,619 ratings — published 1919 — 917 editions
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Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)

4.29 avg rating — 31,936 ratings — published 1934 — 623 editions
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The Code of the Woosters (J...

4.32 avg rating — 31,439 ratings — published 1938 — 171 editions
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The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeev...

4.20 avg rating — 30,364 ratings — published 1923 — 8 editions
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Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

4.25 avg rating — 27,356 ratings — published 1925 — 11 editions
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Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)

4.18 avg rating — 19,557 ratings — published 1933 — 6 editions
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Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves,...

4.31 avg rating — 13,711 ratings — published 1930 — 99 editions
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Joy in the Morning (Jeeves,...

4.28 avg rating — 13,286 ratings — published 1947 — 3 editions
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Something Fresh (Blandings ...

4.12 avg rating — 13,008 ratings — published 1915 — 56 editions
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Leave It to Psmith (Psmith,...

4.28 avg rating — 12,402 ratings — published 1923 — 235 editions
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Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse  (?)
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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
P.G. Wodehouse

“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

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
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