P. G. Wodehouse

24 featured booksP. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. 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 pre-war 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 Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Terry Pratchett. Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens commented, "there is not, and never will be, anything to touch him." Wodehouse's characters are often eccentric, with peculiar attachments, such as to pigs (Lord Emsworth), newts (Gussie Fink-Nottle), antique silver (Bertie's Uncle Tom Travers), golf-collectables (numerous characters) or socks (Archibald Mulliner). His "mentally negligible" good-natured characters invariably make their lot worse by their half-witted schemes to improve a bad situation. A key figure in most Wodehouse stories is a "fixer" whose genius soars above the incompetent blather and crude bluster of most of the other characters, Jeeves being the best known example. Other characters in this vein are Lord Ickenham ("Uncle Fred") and Galahad Threepwood, who perform much the same role in the Blandings Castle stories—though never both at the same time—and Psmith, who does the same thing in the stories that bear his name. Wodehouse was known for his consummate skill at their detailed construction and development. Typically, a relative or friend makes some demand that forces a character into a bizarre situation from which it seems impossible to recover, only to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale. Source: Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse]

Search this author Open first work

OL136197A

Overview

Catalog identity and bibliographic footprint for this author.

24 representative editions

Author pages in Bookitis are intended to show only works actually attributed to the author and a representative edition for each of those works.

Catalog identity

How this author appears inside the active Bookitis catalog.

Display name
P. G. Wodehouse
Personal name
P. G. Wodehouse
Source identifier
OL136197A

Featured books

Representative editions for works actually authored by this person.

Works in catalog

Quick navigation into the work-level grouping pages behind the featured books.

The small bachelor
Representative edition published 2025
Open Work
The White Feather
Representative edition published 2024
Open Work
The Head of Kay's
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
The Gold Bat
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
Inimitable Jeeves, Deluxe Edition
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
Heart of a Goof
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
Carry on, Jeeves
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
Hello, Plum !
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
Mr. Mulliner Stories
Representative edition published 2023
Open Work
A Prefect's Uncle
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
A Damsel in Distress
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
Indiscretions of Archie
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
The Pothunters
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
My Man Jeeves
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
Collected Works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
Fireside Reading of My Man Jeeves
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
Golf Stories
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
የቅዱስ ኦስቲን ተረቶች
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
Sam the Sudden
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
My Man Jeeves
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
Sam in the Suburbs
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
Something New
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work