The overarching theme of P.G. Wodehouse’s work was described in 27East in 2012 by Andrea Jacobsen, a Wodehouse Society member ...

Wodehouse's admirer and defender Evelyn Waugh framed it perfectly; or as Jeeves might say, quoting Plautus, Rem acu tetigisti. ("You have hit the nail on the head.") ...

Wodehouse manages to work a lawyer into the plot, for he loved lawyers approximately as much as did his great predecessor Charles Dickens, and he seized every chance to have fun at their expense ...

Wodehouse started quickly with stories about schoolboys and soon enough gained success with them, but from the start he was ambitious. Writing from New York in 1909 to a fellow Englishman, ...

Cricket’s been a theme that quite a few accomplished writers, from VS Naipaul to Shehan Karunatilaka, have explored. However, ...

Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good.

Editing the novels of P. G. Wodehouse — ‘the gold standard of English wit’ — punishes future readers. The people endorsing retroactive edits to the works of P. G ...

When book reviewers write about legendary British humor writer P.G. Wodehouse, they often fall into the trap of trying to display the same effervescent wit possessed by the writer whom Evelyn ...

Normally I model myself on one of the more retiring of the Desert Fathers, as much as a man living in England with six ...

A man’s best friend is not his publisher. We got a letter from Simon & Schuster the other day saying that P. G. Wodehouse was going to have his eightieth birthday on October 15th; that on that ...