QUICK SERVICE—P. G. Wodehouse—Doubleday, Doran ($2). Few noises are more thrilling than the shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late ...
Those who doubt the inherent subjectivity of the reading experience would do well to pick up Sebastian Faulks’s new novel, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, advertised as “an homage to P.G. Wodehouse.” ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hugh Laurie, left, and Stephen Fry, seen here in a publicity photo, played Bertie Wooster and Jeeves in a BBC series of Wodehouse ...
HOT WATER — P. G. Wodehouse — Doubleday, Doran. Like Amos ‘n’ Andy, Charles Dickens and other classics, Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse some time ago began to pay the penalty of fame. His patter ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sophie Ratcliffe is quick to point out, in her thoughtful and informative introduction to this collection of P.G. Wodehouse’s correspondence, that his ...
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 Waugh ...
Huzzah and right ho to Michael Dirda for the P.G. Wodehouse book roundup ("Sentences to Make Life Worthwhile—P.G. Wodehouse published nearly 100 books; Where to begin? Which are the plums of Plum?," ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
One of the minor miseries of disaster is that it can turn you into a cliché. After weeks of unconsciously absorbing quarantine Twitter’s advice to read P. G. Wodehouse, I alighted on a brilliant idea.
Faith Sullivan enjoyed her breakout at the age of 55 with the 1988 best seller “The Cape Ann,” a Depression-era tale set in Harvester, Minn. Her four succeeding novels have all returned to that small ...