| 单词 | Wodehouse |
| 例句 | Dad says he doesn’t mind if I read silly English books by P. G.Wodehouse as long as I don’t forget the men who did their bit and gave their lives for Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z P. G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves offers what is among the funniest instances of a failure of decorum in all of literature. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The first was when we were about to film an interview with PG Wodehouse. Robert Robinson obituary letters 2011-08-17T11:30:32Z Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler: Violent and nasty things happen, accompanied by wickedly funny repartee. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Like Block, Wodehouse was nothing if not professional. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Wodehouse put it in “My Man Jeeves,” if people don’t sometimes yield to them? Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z I published a life of Wodehouse in 2004, for which I read some 100 Wodehouse titles, including many collections of short stories. Which is the perfect comic novel? 2010-12-13T14:48:00Z It clearly worked: this evening he was presented with the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction for Solar at the Guardian Hay festival. Hay presto 2010-05-28T15:51:00Z Colin Donnell, a young actor who just finished in “Anything Goes” on Broadway, stood by his table in a dark suit and bow tie, looking like a character from a Wodehouse novel. Scene City: Decades Ball Benefits Lapham?s Quarterly - Scene City 2012-05-17T20:05:37Z Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker as among his heroes. Russell Brand talks his way to Hollywood stardom 2010-06-02T19:50:00Z Also concerned with the question of climate change is Ian McEwan, whose latest novel, Solar, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic writing, despite taking the issue as its subject. Haycast 02: Ian McEwan, Jon Snow and Howard Davies 2010-05-30T09:53:00Z Nearly as bad for Wodehouse, the world had changed. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z Wodehouse or Damon Runyon — a sweet and timeless bubble with its own morality, language and customs. 'The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party': the welcome return of Precious Ramotswe 2011-03-24T22:24:03Z Beyond any fancy speculation, the novels and stories that Wodehouse set in Blandings Castle hold the key to his astounding grip on the literary imagination of the interwar reading public. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Like Wodehouse he is myopic, utterly at a loss without his spectacles, projecting an air of distraction that was probably quite calculated. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Among the Wodehouses and the Euripides there were, of course, fierce economic tomes, capitalist manuals, bibles of domination. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z New Yorkers that fall enjoyed a new play by W. Somerset Maugham and a new novel by P. G. Wodehouse. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z At its most engaging, “Trio” rises to something more like the sublimely dotty comedy of P. G. Wodehouse. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Of the runners-up, Faulks will have the most cause to be aggrieved - as his book was based on the Jeeves and Wooster characters, after whose author the Wodehouse Prize was named. Booker satire wins comedy book prize 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Wodehouse wrote: “They say fish are good for the brain. Have a go at the sardines and come back and report.” Perspective | Apples keep you healthy, carrots help your eyes: What science says about such folk remedies 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In the movie Ms. Streep effortlessly imitates those burnished, sometimes strident, declamatory tones, the one the novelist Angela Carter once said were reminiscent “not of real toffs but of Wodehouse aunts.” Arts & Leisure: For ?Iron Lady,? Armor Added to Streep?s Wardrobe 2011-12-23T15:01:39Z Two of my very favorite authors are P. G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But I saw in another article on here that Kate Atkinson has a new book out, so that may soon push ahead of both Gaskell and Wodehouse in line. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z Wodehouse claimed he wrote "a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether", and it's true that when I first read him 20 years ago I enjoyed his frothy escapism. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z Robert Goodale, an actor, said he became a fan of Wodehouse when he shared a house with his late twin brother when they were in their early twenties. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z And I left the show grinning foolishly and mightily relieved that my future perusal of Wodehouse had in no way been jeopardized by what I had just seen. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Wodehouse has a sacred value in my life, having been an inexhaustible source of pleasure since my childhood. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The world came back around to P. G. Wodehouse, however. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z There is something golden and innocent and Edenic about the world Wodehouse built: while it’s full of trivial people doing trivial things, it is itself not at all trivial. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z There are things I’ve been hoarding, things I don’t have the courage to tackle just yet, gifts, books I buy on impulse, and P. G. Wodehouse, a perennial. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z That is, as Wodehouse put it, “I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.” Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z Wodehouse — the Pleydell clan, both male and female, incessantly exchange teasing banter, quips and affectionate insults. Review | Escape reality with these delightful old-time thrillers. You’ll forget 2020 is almost here. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z I am helping people discover or rediscover the dazzling work of Lardner and Wodehouse. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z All we know is that, towards the end of his life, Wodehouse occasionally wrote about Fitzgerald's work, in rather disparaging terms, I regret to say. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z In 1967 Sir Patrick Dean, the British ambassador in Washington said that honouring Wodehouse would "give currency to a Bertie Wooster image of the British character which we are doing our best to eradicate". The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z If you shake “P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters” hard enough, however, good things do fall out of it, like subway tokens from the pockets of a fuzzy old overcoat. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z Cho’s novel somehow manages to be a frothy, hilarious romance resembling Wodehouse at times while also offering a pointed critique of British colonialism — it’s quite a feat. Review | Fairies and their magical worlds have captivated us for centuries. Here are some of the books that did it best. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Wodehouse, successful in Britain and the US, aged 59, was trapped in Le Touquet, the Normandy resort, when the Germans occupied France in 1940. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z If he’d built his world around tragedy Wodehouse would have the standing of a Proust or a Faulkner. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z Sure, there’s the dry wit of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, and Nancy Mitford’s quirky family novels “The Pursuit of Love” and “Love in a Cold Climate.” Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z If they did "see more" of each other, Wodehouse does not mention it. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z The new play, which has the blessing of the Wodehouse Estate, is based on 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters. Jeeves and Wooster head for West End 2013-06-03T06:32:46Z But, unlike Wodehouse, he wasn’t just funny; Pratchett was also a moralist. ‘The Shepherd’s Crown’ review: The final Discworld novel 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It's enough of an achievement to bring together Voltaire and PG Wodehouse; you don't need Salinger as well. The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg – review 2012-10-05T21:55:11Z Wodehouse compared it favorably to Wagner’s “Parsifal”; Jack Kerouac later said it influenced the Beats. The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z After Orwell’s death Wodehouse wrote: “He struck me as one of those warped birds who have never recovered from an unhappy childhood and a miserable school life.” Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z I called my wife and asked her to FedEx the rest of her Wodehouse collection to my hotel in city number 11. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z He writes of public access to great houses with the disdain of a Waugh or Wodehouse. Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z On every family road trip we listened to books on tapes — a ton of Jean Shepherd and every Jeeves book by P. G. Wodehouse. Why Seth Meyers Loves Having Authors on His Show 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. McCrum is not especially funny, but he seems to compose his lightly charred sentences the same way Wodehouse roasted his. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z Since Wodehouse and especially Wilde built airtight fun houses in which artifice is pretty much everything, you might think that letting in a little natural oxygen would send the whole edifice tumbling down. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Wodehouse was a deep admirer of Orwell, who wrote an essay in his defense after the radio debacle. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award is given to the book that summons up the "comic spirit" of Wodehouse. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z The tone evokes a cheeky Oxford professor regaling us over a pint of stout in the pub, and Forsyth revels in his Britishisms as much as any P. G. Wodehouse character. Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Wodehouse, in a 1969 letter to Christie, offers a further clue. Review | Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the immortal mysteries she created 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z "The sweet air of the summer evening poured in through the open window," writes Wodehouse. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Wodehouse — it is pronounced WOOD-house — was a self-made man, and he never took his success for granted. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z Another place to start might be the innocent world of PG Wodehouse. Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction? 2013-05-27T10:51:21Z Nowhere was Wodehouse, the writer, more blissfully at peace, or more happily at play. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Wodehouse, Mr. le Carré charmed the armies of interviewers who came to his cliff top house in Cornwall, where he liked to go for long walks. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z I also have a little tower of P. G. Wodehouse nearby. What Moves Nina Stibbe Most in a Book? ‘Dogs’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Marion has no sooner met her than she’s making the obvious comparison: “She was like something out of P. G. Wodehouse.” Review | Wendy Holden’s ‘The Royal Governess’ is spirited entertainment that revisits Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z I vividly recall devouring the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse in this way. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Wodehouse isn’t as easy to read aloud as Lardner, but Mr. Lithgow takes a great deal of pleasure in mapping sentences whose verbs are barely in earshot of their subjects. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z For the purposes of this discussion, then, I exclude Twain, and – because he is a special case – Wodehouse. Which is the perfect comic novel? 2010-12-13T14:48:00Z Wit is a delicate weapon, and Wodehouse's mastery of it could teach all of us a bit of self-defence. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z Wodehouse's society had no relation to how people actually lived. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z Pratchett has been shortlisted on three previous occasions for the Wodehouse award: the two authors, said Florence, are surprisingly similar. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z But hardly anyone has dared attempt to carry on the Wodehouse legacy. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Wodehouse will be placed in the Poets’ Corner, by permission of the dean of the abbey, in response to a petition from the Wodehouse Society. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z At the very least, they will send readers back to the subtle magic of Wodehouse and Fitzgerald, 20th-century giants. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z I do love what Wodehouse called the old oompus-boompus when it happens to be in progress, but wouldn’t go out of my way. My year on Match.com 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z Florence was unwilling to sum up the spirit of Wodehouse which the prize rewards, suggesting that "you can't put it into 47 volumes". Ian McEwan in contention for Wodehouse comic novel prize 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z But Schott is the second intrepid writer to risk a Wodehouse tribute in the last five years. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z At the time I didn’t really know who Wodehouse was. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize, now in its 12th year, is for the novel that best captures the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse. Sam Leith and India Knight in running for Wodehouse book prize 2011-04-13T00:00:00Z In pastiche mode, we heard Wodehouse writing as Walter Raleigh, Ivan the Terrible and Hitler. Radio review: The Write Stuff 2010-10-06T11:03:00Z What can explain this contemporary renaissance of the butler and the bachelor, apart from indulgence on the part of the Wodehouse estate? Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z I'm at a working-class comprehensive in a suburb of Bristol and I'm dressed like a PG Wodehouse character. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z Other famous literary names published in the London version of the Strand included HG Wells, Somerset Maugham, GK Chesterton and PG Wodehouse, who contributed 150 stories over a period of 30 years. Unseen Joseph Heller story out this week 2013-07-22T14:19:31Z Over on the Telegraph's site, the writer Harry Mount is praising PG Wodehouse. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z Wodehouse, wonderfully captures the late British humorist’s renowned wit. ‘Jeeves in Bloom’ a valentine to Wodehouse fans 2013-02-11T19:39:34Z The novel was chosen unanimously from a shortlist of five books to win the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar 2010-05-25T09:58:00Z In shaping it, I mixed the riotous writing of Ring Lardner and P. G. Wodehouse with stories about my family, my father’s life in the theater and my beginnings as an actor. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z As it turns out, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse — what else would the P.G. stand for? — was an English writer born in 1881. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z It may derive from nostalgia for Wodehouse’s manicured milieu of mirth and privilege — “Downton Abbey” with a laugh track. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The prize is given to the novel that has "best captured the comic spirit" of Wodehouse. Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar 2010-05-25T09:58:00Z So to win the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic writing once was bliss for me. Howard Jacobson wins second Wodehouse prize for comic fiction 2013-05-15T11:11:42Z Among the towering intellectuals of his era, Trevor-Roper was perhaps the least dull — a sort of P. G. Wodehouse character with an avenging, steel-trap mind. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z "He used go round the house constantly quoting Wodehouse to me and I thought 'God, this man is brilliant.'" Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, described as "a homage to PG Wodehouse" by the author's estate, will be published on 6 November by Hutchinson, also home to Wodehouse's later novels. Jeeves carries on in Sebastian Faulks's Wodehouse sequel 2013-03-07T14:27:56Z To illustrate, my blind school's braille library had one Famous Five book, one Billy Bunter, one Just William and, as I grew older, one PG Wodehouse and one James Bond. Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true revolution 2012-08-17T21:00:01Z Wodehouse, who died in 1975 at the age of 93, is recognised as one of the great humorists of the 20th Century. Jeeves and Wooster head for West End 2013-06-03T06:32:46Z Wodehouse nuts will probably moan that it's not faithful to the letter. TV Review: Call the Midwife 2013-01-20T21:00:01Z McEwan, though, said today he was "delighted" to win the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse, "three names associated with distinctive and important pleasures". Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar 2010-05-25T09:58:00Z It was a jolly bunch except for Bryan Ferry, who just sat in a lawn chair and was reading P. G. Wodehouse books and chuckling to himself. Glenn O’Brien’s Friends Remember a ‘Successful Maniac’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z It was P. G. Wodehouse, of all people, who asked, “What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?” How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z His argument, Wodehouse declared, was that “the soppiness and overenthusiasm of modern literary criticism is due to the fact that critics are now clean shaven instead of wearing full-size whiskers.” Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z From Chaucer to Wodehouse to Waugh, the English sense of humour has always proudly been held dear and adored. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z Clubby men’s lifestyle brands like Alfred Dunhill have long offered customers a restorative snifter while being fitted for a suit, like a rite of passage from the pages of P. G. Wodehouse. Bar Crawling From Boutique to Boutique 2011-04-13T21:10:51Z And Wodehouse’s work has an effect very similar to Jeeves’ magical tonic. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z Wodehouse was not, alas, a very good letter writer. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z There are so many things he does which Wodehouse did too. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z In the comic imagination of PG Wodehouse, who first created Blandings almost a hundred years ago in his novel Something Fresh, there is no turf more hallowed, no spot more perfect. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z There’s something a little embarrassing about all this eternal coziness, but it’s not a sign of the poverty of Wodehouse’s spirit, but rather of its enormous strength. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z “As much as in Tolkien, Wodehouse, Chandler or even Jane Austen, this closed world is a whole world,” the critic Boyd Tonkin wrote in The Independent. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z When PG Wodehouse was interned by the Nazis at the beginning of the second world war, he took just one book: the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z A satire of the Booker Prize by Edward St Aubyn has won its own award - The Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Booker satire wins comedy book prize 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Wodehouse nicely mocked him in his figure of Roderick Spode—had many of the traits of a genuinely popular charismatic figure, worryingly so. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Gainsbourg's strange and wonderful English accent – somewhere between PG Wodehouse and estuary – comes from coaching for one of her early films, The Cement Garden. Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I'm always looking for what will make me feel bad' 2011-08-05T18:59:01Z PG Wodehouse has always been a balm for homesickness, heartbreak, and general crabbiness, so he can sure as hell cure January. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z The one that turned the key to the elder Lithgow’s mood was the Wodehouse, and if it doesn’t turn the key to yours, you are not susceptible to British literary humor. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z I had been meaning to praise Wodehouse here, and I held back. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z Witnesses reported seeing him in the presence of Wodehouse, the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, whose controversial broadcasts led some in Britain to accuse him of being a Nazi collaborator. UK spies sought German movie extra and Nazi agent 2011-08-25T23:03:11Z Does the wit of Wodehouse in fact offer a solution to my rage? The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z The play, called Perfect Nonsense, by the brothers Robert and David Goodale, is largely based on Wodehouse's 1938 book The Code of the Woosters, described by some critics as his best work. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z There is plenty of low comedy as well, a bracing silliness that places Austen in the line of British humor that extends through P. G. Wodehouse to Monty Python. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z For a while, he was spoken of as the heir to Wodehouse and Waugh. Tom Sharpe remembered 2013-06-06T16:15:01Z The outbreak of World War II found Wodehouse in France, and he was interned by the Germans in Upper Silesia. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z With mild and exquisite mockery, Wodehouse shows us how to loosen the knots we tie ourselves in when we are intimidated by the kind of people who expect our deference. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z The world of William, like that of P. G. Wodehouse, is not so much out of date as out of time altogether. From the archive, 13 January 1969: The Peter Pan world of William 2011-01-13T11:26:35Z Wodehouse,” or will it be “the story of a whisky priest, tortured by the consciousness of having committed every sin?” Michael Frayn’s comic novels: ‘Mad Men’ settings with a modern message 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Wodehouse was released from the internment camp in June 1941 and was put up in the Adlon hotel, Berlin, close to the Reich Chancellery. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z Just as Block’s memoir ends when he discovers his true “voice,” so Dawson concludes with Wodehouse about to create his first great comic character, the languorous, dandyish and resourceful Psmith. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z I discovered Wodehouse in my teens, when I was busy with exams and needed some light relief. Sophia Bennett's top 10 stylish reads 2012-07-12T07:00:00Z "It's not just the playfulness of the language – he's also quite patently satirical in the way Wodehouse was," he said. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z Wodehouse, a comic master dedicated to making his readers laugh, is a special case. Which is the perfect comic novel? 2010-12-13T14:48:00Z The film shows Wodehouse being persuaded to write and record five broadcasts for his American fans. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z Also, to quote Wodehouse one more delightful time, they're tough: "It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them." Reading group: Moral mayhem in Travels with My Aunt 2012-06-21T14:15:21Z For starters, the two stories that Mr. Lithgow recites — “Haircut” in the first act and P. G. Wodehouse’s “Uncle Fred Flits By” in the second — are superb, outlandish and, in very different ways, hair-raising. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But the era when ITV could be looked to to produce adaptations of the likes of PG Wodehouse's classics has gone. Cable Girl: Jeeves and Wooster 2010-08-17T07:00:00Z The coup involving the author was taken up by Joseph Goebbels's propaganda ministry, and Wodehouse was vilified by the British government and the press. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z It is the first time the Wodehouse estate has given permission for a stage play, and they only did so after Goodale and another actor performed a reading in front of them. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z Wodehouse also likes to portray the 9th earl as "a fluffy-minded and amiable old gentleman", which was certainly adjacent to his own self-image. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z My knowledge of Istanbul is not extensive and drawn almost wholly from PG Wodehouse. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-05-28T16:41:37Z In Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, reluctant patriarch Lord Emsworth is a jumble of legs and befuddlement, an amiable, spindle-limbed weather vane buffeted hither and thither by the winds of familial tomfoolery. Blandings is just the ticket, by jove 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z Both Wodehouse and Fitzgerald, in their prime, achieved a fictional prose that was close to a kind of poetry. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z Wodehouse coffee mug filled with pencils, I keep a lapel button that reads: “Life? Of course I have a life. It’s a life filled with books.” ‘Avid Reader’: Robert Gottlieb’s candid look inside the golden era of publishing 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Wodehouse writes to his daughter Leonora about seeing "Scott" on the train to the city: "I believe those stories you hear about his drinking are exaggerated," he wrote. Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z A country house murder mystery, it combines a plot worthy of Agatha Christie, dialogue almost as good as PG Wodehouse and action as absurd as Monty Python. The Borrowers; The Mouse and His Child; Robin and His Merry Mam!; Dial M for Murgatroyd 2012-12-23T00:04:15Z Wodehouse, and I'm itching to dive into the three others I immediately bought after finishing it, so that could be influencing my mood. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z The pages of Wodehouse contain an “empire of comic writing on which the sun has never set,” Schott writes. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z His other influence was Wodehouse; he was very pleased later to learn that Wodehouse was a reader of his. Tom Sharpe, Wilt novelist, dies aged 85 2013-06-06T09:45:25Z Wodehouse might have put it, ‘North of the collar stud, Alan stands alone.’ Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Although Pratchett's wizards, vampires and goblins are far removed from Wodehouse's butlers, toffs and parties, both, said Florence, are from fantastical worlds. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z My family cursed it too, because reading it I couldn’t help pick up some of the pre-World War I slang that Wodehouse adored and deployed. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z Winner of the first Talkies best reader award, Jarvis brings fresh sparkle and wit to the hilarious Wodehouse. Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z The Jeeves and Wooster author himself "would have enjoyed" McEwan's novel, said Florence – both authors revel in "the sheer playfulness of language", and Wodehouse, too, makes his political points with ridicule and humour, he said. Ian McEwan brings home bacon with comic novel gong for Solar 2010-05-25T09:58:00Z While few writers can match Lawrence Block for sheer professionalism, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse actually outdoes him. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z His books became bestsellers and he met and corresponded with his hero, Wodehouse. Tom Sharpe remembered 2013-06-06T16:15:01Z Yet the Wodehouse, for all its airy wit, is not about nothing: It too is a story of deception, only in this case the kind that delivers delicious comeuppance to the puffed-up and slow-witted. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Wodehouse and you’ll be smiling before you reach the bottom of the page. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z After taking home the Wodehouse in May with his debut novel, Vernon God Little, in October DBC Pierre went on to win the Booker prize. Ian McEwan in contention for Wodehouse comic novel prize 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z Taken together these locations form a little universe, and while you’re reading Wodehouse you feel like you’re a native of it. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z The major players in this spy story seem to have emerged from an Evelyn Waugh novel that’s been tweaked by P. G. Wodehouse. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z And The Code of the Woosters is, of course, perfect Wodehouse from beginning to end. Putting the Page 99 test to the, er, test 2010-09-27T19:00:00Z Reading Wodehouse now, it's easy to kid yourself that he was in fact a rampaging class warrior, exposing the twerpery of the rich while butlers, chefs, and barmaids quietly prosper amid the foolishness. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z The pure, comic world of Wodehouse fortified me. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z Wodehouse, but barmy can be a lot of fun so long as it’s in someone else’s house. Book review: ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters,’ by Philip Eade Wodehouse was an imposing figure, more than 6ft tall and in his day both a penetrating fast bowler and a useful addition to a rugby scrum. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z The genius of Wodehouse is in the way he gives the two narrative arcs exactly the same dramatic weight. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z I note, en passant, that Wodehouse, an essentially Edwardian writer, must have been familiar with the Beatrix Potter story for children, "The Tale of Pigling Bland". Wodehouse and Fitzgerald – emblems of a lost age 2013-01-07T13:53:51Z Like all of Wodehouse’s best tales, “Uncle Fred Flits By” is utter nonsense, a tightly plotted farce made of thin air. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The allegation made by his critics was that Wodehouse bought his release by agreeing to broadcast on German radio. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z His books are mostly just as good, especially his 2004 biography of the comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z Wodehouse stories of an English gent and his very helpful butler, Jeeves. Jeeves, 'Matchmaker,' Itamar Moses all in Taproot's 2013 season 2012-10-25T04:16:04Z This sublimely vague and "woollen-headed" peer was a character on whom Wodehouse doted, and whose foibles he explored in some of his finest work – Heavy Weather, Summer Lightning, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, "Pig -hoo-o-o-o-ey!" Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Just in terms of being a comic stylist, writing wise, I don't think there's really anyone better than Wodehouse. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z Mangan, recently seen in the BBC2 sitcom Episodes, said he was "ridiculously excited" at the prospect, although he admitted he had not read any of the Wodehouse books before being offered the role. Jeeves and Wooster to take to West End stage in Perfect Nonsense 2013-06-02T18:00:05Z There he is, lurking with rotund grandeur at the very forefront of film greatness, like an over-zealous restaurant manager in a PG Wodehouse novel. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z Wodehouse, it’s tough to communicate the flavor of it without resorting to long quotes. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z I would say anything by P. G. Wodehouse is a secret pleasure. He’s Played Churchill and Lear. But for John Lithgow, Audiobooks Test His Mettle. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Wodehouse was among the best-paid and best-loved writers in the world during the 1930s, a British institution, and he could afford to have a sense of humor about critics. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z It's silly – of course it is, it's Wodehouse. TV review: World Without End; Blandings 2013-01-12T22:55:01Z The prize is a collection of PG Wodehouse novels, a jeroboam of champagne and the honour of naming a Gloucester Spot pig. Sam Leith and India Knight in running for Wodehouse book prize 2011-04-13T00:00:00Z Fleming is still box office in a way Wodehouse and Christie are not. The mystery of James Bond's enduring appeal 2010-05-31T16:52:00Z The Wodehouse story is better, but not worth the ticket price. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: Geraint Lewis / Rex Features PG Wodehouse got a lot of fun out of a fictional magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which continually teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. The Lady and the Revamp and Storyville: Kings of Pastry | TV Review 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z A darker side of the Wodehouse legacy is also to be explored in a drama in March which will re-examine the controversial period that the author spent in Nazi Germany. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z On several occasions, Leo — who is only in his mid-20s — nearly approaches Wodehouse in the zing of his similes: “The doorbell rings again, and my train of thought is derailed and several passengers are killed.” ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z I needed Wodehouse – and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists would not have done instead. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z In 1967 he moved to London and into publishing and soon found himself PG Wodehouse's last editor, "which was a happy state of life, as you can imagine". Christopher MacLehose: A life in publishing 2012-12-28T22:55:09Z The 13 most essential L.A. works of short fiction, from a Little Tokyo proto-noir to Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Bradbury and generations of Chicano pioneers. How to skewer life's absurdities while thumbing your nose at Amazon 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Other highlights include rare and first editions of books by Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse and James Joyce. Charlie Watts' book collection to be auctioned 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Wodehouse’s every sentence, my very favorite comic novels are Jerome K. Jerome’s high-spirited “Three Men in a Boat” and the scathing portrait of an unconscious religious hypocrite, H.H. Perspective | Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “There is no better choice for a vacation than a P.G. Wodehouse book.” Perspective | Read all about it: Planes, trains, automobiles — and books 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps surprisingly, it's decades since Wodehouse characters starred on the big screen. PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Wodehouse’s London cartoonist spoils his actor father’s scheme to marry into money. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z With a delivery best approximated as a living checklist of stroke warnings, his bumbling posho shtick almost resembles buffering, a kind of 3G Wodehouse. Frankie Boyle’s election countdown: 'You’ll be praying they prorogue the next parliament' 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The judges of the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction had a different problem in 2018 - they decided none of the nominees were good enough to win. Are award winners and losers out of fashion? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It was magazines, not books, that satisfied her young lust for reading – Austen and Wodehouse would have to wait. ‘I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I sleep with a loaded gun’ 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Sen Gupta is looking to social media to keep interest in Plum Wodehouse going in the future. PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z During his speech, Johnson misquoted P. G. Wodehouse and was heckled by a guest who had arrived by helicopter. The Empty Promise of Boris Johnson 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The prize is given annually to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse, who died at the age of 93 in 1975. 'Pitch-perfect romp' wins comedy prize 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z P. G. Wodehouse wrote that the best way to discover a man’s character is to play golf with him. The Serial Golf Cheat in the White House 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He had a number of beats; he once interviewed the humorist P. G. Wodehouse on Long Island. Shrinking Newspapers and the Costs of Environmental Reporting in Coal Country 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z His mother was a homemaker, and his father, Wodehouse Richardson, served as a quartermaster general during the Boer War, co-founded the Army & Navy department store chain and was knighted by King Edward VII. John Richardson, art connoisseur and biographer of Picasso, dies at 95 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Patty Crocker had been a store employee when she met Wodehouse Richardson. John Richardson, art historian and Picasso biographer, dies at 95 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z I went from reading children’s books to PG Wodehouse, which my father was obsessed with. Elizabeth McCracken: ‘Creative writing is not like making a souffle’ 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Wodehouse and the “Prime Suspect” detective series, among other productions. Russell Baker, droll columnist and memoirist who twice won Pulitzer, dies at 93 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z To read a single Wodehouse sentence is to enter an alternate universe: a zero-gravity caperscape of aristocratic bumbling that seems to transcend time. New Sentences: From ‘Jeeves and the King of Clubs’ 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z His book is much less interior than “In Search of Lost Time,” but also much funnier—at times more Wodehouse than Proust. How Anthony Powell Wrote His Twelve-Volume Masterpiece 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Wodehouse nailed it when he wrote “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing glove.” 99-Seat Beat: Genderless space creatures, mythic New Jerseyites, bickering Hungarians, and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The Comic Novel might imagine itself descended from Cervantes and Fielding, but it is really the stunted offspring of Waugh and Wodehouse, lacking the magic of either. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Wodehouse golf story, you see a course that is rough around the edges but pure within. It's Crucial That The USGA Gets It Right At Shinnecock - Golf Digest 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction won't be awarded this year. Novels 'not funny enough' for top award 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Wodehouse wrote: "He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf." My Last Round - Golf Digest 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Wodehouse’s “Uncle Fred Flits By,” two of the family’s favorite tales. ‘John Lithgow: Stories by Heart’ Review: Jumping Off the Page 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z And as if in rebuke to the Wodehouse prize, the Pulitzer this year found just such magic in Andrew Sean Greer’s Less. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Wodehouse was the author of more than 90 novels and around 300 short stories. Bertie Wooster returns as a spy in Jeeves sequel by Schott's Miscellany author 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Wodehouse and to a stint at the British Medical Journal in the late 1940s. Richard Gordon, who wrote more than a dozen books in the ‘Doctor’ series, dies at 95 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The Wodehouse stories involved explicating plots far from the experience of a child growing up in the 1960s in Manhattan and northern New Jersey, but my father was undaunted. Instead of Dumbing Down Shakespeare, Smarten Up the Kids 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z In another Wodehouse story, the "Oldest Member" warns that love is something that golfers should always treat with great suspicion. Lovestruck: The Golf Course Is A Wonderful Arena For Love To Spark - Golf Digest 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z And the most odorous of all is perhaps Wodehouse himself. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The literary prize is given annually to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse. Wodehouse Prize: Pig named after Bridget Jones's Baby - BBC News 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Works by Agatha Christie, Robert Louis Stevenson and P. G. Wodehouse all featured tontine members plotting to kill one another in hope of a big payoff. When Others Die, Tontine Investors Win 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z I read Wodehouse aloud, too, though I couldn’t do the range of British accents that my father produced. Instead of Dumbing Down Shakespeare, Smarten Up the Kids 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Wodehouse's short story "The Clicking of Cuthbert," the protagonist meets Adeline Smethurst of the Wood Hills Literary and Debating Society—a rival organization to the local golf club—and is instantly smitten. Lovestruck: The Golf Course Is A Wonderful Arena For Love To Spark - Golf Digest 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Wodehouse's “Wrecking Crew,” the four retired businessmen who held up the course as they "scratched the turf like crimson hens" but never let anyone play through? Does slow play actually help golfers? An email debate - Golf Digest 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z A pig is to be named Bridget Jones's Baby after the novel won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Wodehouse Prize: Pig named after Bridget Jones's Baby - BBC News 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “P.G. Wodehouse lived on Long Island and wrote the most English novels ever written,” he says. Bernard Cornwell: Bringing History to Life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z He played Father Brown in a Radio 4 adaptation of GK Chesterton's detective priest stories, as well as radio versions of Sherlock Holmes and PG Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters. Obituary: Andrew Sachs - BBC News 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The library also formally announced that it was making the archive of PG Wodehouse publicly available for the first time. Not as good as P&P: Jane Austen mother's verdict on Mansfield Park 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I have no disagreement with Bob, or Harvey Penick or Wodehouse, on that score. Does slow play actually help golfers? An email debate - Golf Digest 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z As the winner, Fielding will also be awarded some champagne and a complete set of the PG Wodehouse collection of novels. Wodehouse Prize: Pig named after Bridget Jones's Baby - BBC News 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Prof Wodehouse envisaged a campus covered in jacarandas, but each time one was planted it would be mysteriously uprooted. Australians mourn tree that 'failed' university students - BBC News 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The sheer naivety of her subject, however, sometimes brings the book closer, in a bizarre way, to the comedies of PG Wodehouse. Stalin's last American spy: new book tells the strange tale of Noel Field 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Earlier this year “The Sellout” was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize, a British award that rewards humour in fiction. A Swiftian hero 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Wodehouse story perhaps, back in the days when the British golf club secretary was a rumpled, slightly bumbling gentleman amateur. Troon Tales: Nine Points To Ponder At The Open - Golf Digest 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z She said: "To use a word that my hero PG Wodehouse invented, I am terribly 'gruntled' by winning this prize, sharing it with the great Paul Murray." Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild win Wodehouse Prize - BBC News 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The annual Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is given to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse. Former winner Marina Lewycka up for Wodehouse book prize - BBC News 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z I left school with a burning urge to lead the life of a writer: travelling like Byron, feted like Wilde before his fall, creating laughter like Wodehouse and crafting sentences like Nabokov. Struggling as an author? Stop writing only what you want to write 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Truscott was the Isaac Asimov and P. G. Wodehouse of bridge, never tiring and never resting. A Tireless Champion of the Game 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Wind was acclaimed for his golf coverage, but during his career he produced exquisitely written, richly detailed stories on athletes and celebrities — from Arthur Ashe to the British playwright P. G. Wodehouse. Golf Writer Who Coined ‘Amen Corner’ Was a Master in His Own Field 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z "I first read PG Wodehouse as a boy and have kept returning to him ever since, longer than any other writer - which makes this award very special," he added. Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild win Wodehouse Prize - BBC News 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The award is presented at the Hay Festival to the book thought to best capture PG Wodehouse's comic spirit. Scottish duo up for comic fiction prize 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The victorious author will receive a jeroboam of Bollinger champagne, a set of Wodehouse novels from Everyman’s Library and a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig. Irvine Welsh, Joseph O’Neill up for comic-writing prize 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It seems that the term was already being used in newspapers before Wodehouse's 1915 novel. Five ways an American changed how Sherlock Holmes looks and talks 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Fitting that this book won this year’s Wodehouse Prize. Our Favorite Books of 2014: Newsweek Staff Picks The award is given annually to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse. Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild win Wodehouse Prize - BBC News 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The Allahakbarries and the Authors XI existed in parallel, with some players such as Milne and Wodehouse turning out for both. Authors and actors revive cricket rivalry 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Welsh’s scabrous “A Decent Ride” and O’Neill’s Dubai-set “The Dog” are nominees for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Irvine Welsh, Joseph O’Neill up for comic-writing prize 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z A few of the authors remain familiar, such as Wodehouse and Somerset Maugham. The Italian town with an English secret 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z A fellow politician once said he was “like a P. G. Wodehouse character wandering through a scene from ‘Kojak.’ ” Roy M. Goodman, New York State Senator for More Than 30 Years, Dies at 84 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction is given to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse. Bridget vs Bertie for comedy prize 2014-05-07T01:55:14Z Details of the new Beijing charm school have not yet been released, but one can almost imagine them dutifully studying Cary Grant movies or reading PG Wodehouse. Should charm be taught in schools? 2014-03-13T01:19:47Z Earlier this year described him as "the PG Wodehouse of moral depravity", if "a somewhat tricky writer to define". Salmon Fishing author Torday dies 2013-12-19T18:23:33Z One of PG Wodehouse's most famous lines is the description of a hangover, usually quoted as: "The door opened, and a cat stamped into the room." Simon Hoggart's week: The gurning Salmond's 'photo-bombing' was a dud 2013-07-12T15:47:31Z Wodehouse short story, was standing with Barbara Nicklaus in the gallery at 18 at that Open as Sanders hunched over the short putt for the win. British Open: The Best And Worst Of The Open 2013-07-11T04:00:00Z Wodehouse might have cooked up for a Drones Club weekend. British Open: The Real Home Of Golf 2013-07-11T04:00:00Z Adam Douglas notes that PG Wodehouse has enjoyed a marked increase in popularity as readers rediscover his work. Authors who can book you a profit 2013-05-31T23:34:11Z Wodehouse, could have scripted the events of the past week. Golf swings from the absurd to the ridiculous, of course 2013-05-22T18:28:21Z He had three stints as coach of Ajax, the last of them immediately after the war, which he spent interned in a cap at Tost, where PG Wodehouse was also detained. The great European Cup teams: Ajax 1971-73 2013-05-22T12:00:02Z He attended the same English boarding school as P. G. Wodehouse. Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros 2013-05-17T11:00:20Z The Wodehouse estate approved of the new book and the selection of Mr. Faulks, who is a longtime fan of Wodehouse. Jeeves Lives, as Faulks Picks Up Where Wodehouse Left Off 2013-05-07T15:31:01Z He enjoys it so much that I now read him PG Wodehouse each evening. Children and apps: Should we fear the iNanny? 2013-04-27T08:01:35Z Which provoked one more race through the pages of Wodehouse. Golf swings from the absurd to the ridiculous, of course 2013-05-22T18:28:21Z The Masters is upon us, once again inspiring the golfing heart like the Wodehouse morning "when all nature shouted Fore!" The Solitary Search Starts Again 2013-04-09T04:00:00Z Wodehouse was detained by the French for a while but he was never charged and in 1947 he left for the United States. PG Wodehouse and his French connection 2013-01-08T01:19:39Z Afternoon tea is still served in four sittings from 3pm in the hotel's mirrored foyer, attracting a cast of characters who would not look out of place in a PG Wodehouse tale. Barclay brothers close in on control of Claridge's hotel 2012-10-27T23:07:56Z Today Chaplin’s film, for all his comic genius, is embarrassing to watch, while Wodehouse lived to regret his complacency about what was brewing in Berlin. Europe’s New Fascists 2012-10-08T05:00:00Z What would Wodehouse have made of all of this? Golf swings from the absurd to the ridiculous, of course 2013-05-22T18:28:21Z It may not have been the most graceful of returns—as Wodehouse wrote, “The explanation may be thin”—but you know what? Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: How do you kill your hero? 2012-07-09T19:15:03.597Z Author PG Wodehouse was born in England and died in the US, but in between he lived for several years in France, a country that looms large in some of his most colourful creations. PG Wodehouse and his French connection 2013-01-08T01:19:39Z The award is given annually to the book considered by the panel to best capture the comic spirit of PG Wodehouse. Pratchett scoops prize for Snuff 2012-05-30T01:57:11Z A bargain was soon struck: O’Reilly was to take it to Cape Town; and there Sir P. E. Wodehouse soon gave him £500 for it. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Which left Garcia in a state best described by perhaps Wodehouse’s greatest line. Golf swings from the absurd to the ridiculous, of course 2013-05-22T18:28:21Z Inside, most motorists will be content to believe, are some interesting tombs and much stained glass of admirable quality, presented by Lord Wodehouse in 1813. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Clean, clever, packed full of wit and humor, like all of Wodehouse’s tales, in this one he outdoes himself. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z Wodehouse, are answering more calls from super-rich Chinese and Russian clients as wealth shifts between east and west. English Butlers Wanted For Super-Rich Clients in China, Russia 2011-12-13T07:37:07Z Wodehouse, the English humorist who, Mr. Mehta noted, is beloved throughout South Asia. DealBook: Raj Rajaratnam Speaks 2011-10-24T18:42:30Z Now that sounded like nothing out of Wodehouse. Golf swings from the absurd to the ridiculous, of course 2013-05-22T18:28:21Z Under this title Mr. Wodehouse has collected nineteen of the short stories written by him in the past four years. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z But for the pure love of the English language, it's got to be PG Wodehouse. Pat Nevin: 'Why can't England produce a Messi or a Zidane?' 2011-08-26T08:55:16Z Wodehouse was three times mentioned in dispatches, and received the medal with four clasps. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z A New York author is to have a pig named in his honour after becoming the first American to win the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. New Yorker wins Wodehouse Prize 2011-05-24T02:50:10Z The Earl of Kimberley Meanwhile Lord Wodehouse, whose administration, ending in 1866, was wholly political, acted with rigour and fearlessness. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Mr. Wodehouse is one of the few English short-story writers with an equally large public on both sides of the Atlantic: but only two of these stories have an American setting. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z I used to play with the children of Canon Wodehouse, who, with his charming wife, Lady Jane, lived close to the Palace. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Just previously he had been returned without opposition as one of the representatives of East Norfolk on the retirement of Mr. Edmond Wodehouse. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z The award celebrates books that capture author PG Wodehouse's comic spirit. New Yorker wins Wodehouse Prize 2011-05-24T02:50:10Z The viceroyalty of Lord Wodehouse brought him an earldom in the year he retired from office—1868—but it would be an exaggeration to say that he was conspicuously successful. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z He sounds like a south London geezer yet attended Dulwich College, alma mater of, among others, PG Wodehouse and Andrew Sheridan. Six Nations 2011: England's Nick Easter is hungry to feast on France 2011-02-25T16:09:29Z Governor Wodehouse decided both of these cases in favor of the Confederates, but having reported the facts to the British government, his action in the case of the Tuscaloosa was disapproved. Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z He was the eldest son of Mr. Edmond Wodehouse, of Sennowe Lodge, and was for many years in the Civil Service and in the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Shteyngart, who will talk about his work at the festival, will be presented with champagne and a collection of Wodehouse works. New Yorker wins Wodehouse Prize 2011-05-24T02:50:10Z Until his appointment to Ireland, Wodehouse had had experience of under-secretaryships only, at the Foreign and Indian Offices, and Lord Palmerston's selection came as a surprise. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z The Governor, Sir Philip Wodehouse, also came over from Cape Town during our stay. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z As PG Wodehouse put it: 'It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.' The ATP World Tour Finals return to London 2010-11-21T18:26:00Z The Lord Chancellor afterwards removed the name of Lord Wodehouse from the commission of the peace. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Modelling his column stylistically on PG Wodehouse, he deployed anachronisms for comic effect. Alan Watkins obituary 2010-05-09T15:08:00Z The story, which centres on a climate change scientist, is up for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize. McEwan up for comic writing prize 2010-04-27T03:59:00Z Colonel Wodehouse having been informed of their attack, at once sent out help, and the Dervishes were surprised and annihilated. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 In another minute he is in consultation with Sir Frederick Wodehouse, the Assistant Commissioner who controls the department, and possibly with Sir Edward Henry himself. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police In 1835 he came forward with Mr. R. H. Gurney, in opposition to Mr. Edmond Wodehouse and Lord Walpole, when the two last named were returned. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Wodehouse of a definition of Greek tragedy—the sort of drama in which one character comes to another and says, “If you don’t kill mother, I will!” The So-called Human Race The prize, now in its 11th year, honours the novel of the last twelve months that has best captured the comic spirit of comic author PG Wodehouse. McEwan up for comic writing prize 2010-04-27T03:59:00Z On account of this victory, Wodehouse Pasha was known in the Sudan as "the vanquisher of Wad Nejumi." Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Other houses which in point of magnitude belong to the same group are Stowe, with its frontage of more than a thousand feet, Hamilton Palace, Wentworth Wodehouse, and Eaton. Memoirs of Life and Literature In 1837 another election occurred, when Lord Walpole having retired, Mr. H. N. Burroughes was brought forward in conjunction with Mr. Wodehouse. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z If some of the characters—a ridiculous peer, his more ridiculous sister and his most ridiculous butler—are of the "stock" variety, Mr. Wodehouse's way of treating them is always fresh and amusing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 Perhaps not enough books can make us laugh aloud as Wodehouse does. McEwan up for comic writing prize 2010-04-27T03:59:00Z The Rector rose abruptly, waving his hand, and went to join Miss Wodehouse in her corner. The Rector My dear," said Miss Wodehouse, "things used to be very different when I was young. The Doctor's Family In 1809 he married his cousin, Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Philip Wodehouse, by whom he had four children, two sons and two daughters. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Lady Wodehouse found hers eating the contents of a pot on her dressing-table—it happened to be castor oil pomatum for the hair. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 Further east again, the north-east angle of the colony, including the districts of Herschel, Aliwal North, Barkly East, Wodehouse, and Albert, had for the time being become de facto Free State territory. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government "Oh, Mr Proctor, isn't it wonderful?" sighed good Miss Wodehouse. The Rector But the doctor's attention was so speedily riveted on two figures eagerly talking near Mr Wodehouse's garden-door, that the long sweep of wall seemed but a single step to him as he hurried along. The Doctor's Family Another General Election took place in 1837, and Mr. Wodehouse was returned with Mr. Henry Negus Burroughes, in opposition to the same Liberal candidates. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z But then Lucy Wodehouse's views were highly objectionable, and she bethought herself of Julia Trench, who had long ago been selected by the sisters as the clergyman's wife of Skelmersdale. The Perpetual Curate P. G. Wodehouse used to write lyrics for musical plays in England, interpolating one or two in existing successes. When Winter Comes to Main Street The only eyes which in the smallest degree comprehended him were those of good Miss Wodehouse, who had been the witness and the participator of his humiliation. The Rector The matter was as incomprehensible to Miss Wodehouse as to Dr Rider, but not of such engrossing interest. The Doctor's Family In 1842 Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. Burroughes were again elected; Sir W. J. H. B. ffolkes, who was abroad at the time, was nominated without his consent as the Liberal candidate. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z I hear he has been playing fast and loose with that very pretty person, Miss Wodehouse, and that her friends begin to be indignant. The Perpetual Curate Apparently it was possible to write a first rate detective-mystery story with touches of crisp humour as good as Pelham Grenville Wodehouse’s stuff! When Winter Comes to Main Street But neither Lucy nor Miss Wodehouse had brought matters to extremity. The Rector It was Miss Wodehouse, in her soft dove-coloured dress and large soft checked shawl. The Doctor's Family Mr. Wodehouse sat in Parliament about forty years. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Miss Wodehouse wanted you very bad an hour or two ago, for they thought as master was reviving, and could understand. The Perpetual Curate And as for your manners—heaven knows I'm no P. G. Wodehouse valet. Free Air Mr Wodehouse was a man who creaked universally. The Rector These wonderful young people perplexed Miss Wodehouse; here was another incomprehensible specimen—most incomprehensible perhaps of all that had ever crossed her mild elderly horizon with bewildering unintelligible light. The Doctor's Family He was the eldest son of Admiral Wodehouse. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z "My name is Wodehouse—it's my own name that I have signed after all, by Jove!" said the unlucky prodigal. The Perpetual Curate On November 23rd, 1899, Mr. Sauer held a meeting at Dordrecht to dissuade the Dutch subjects of the Crown in the Wodehouse Division of the Colony from joining in the rebellion. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Why didn't you keep it, then, before we came in," cried Mr Wodehouse, "chatting with a couple of girls like Lucy and Mary? The Rector Miss Wodehouse bent her troubled sweet old face over the handle of her parasol, and did not say anything for a few minutes. The Doctor's Family At Inkerman a battery called “Wodehouse’s Battery” was furiously attacked and nearly all the men cut down by overpowering numbers of the enemy. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z He is so good and so nice," said kind Miss Wodehouse, "he never makes a fuss about anything he does. The Perpetual Curate In the afternoon the Prince drove into Bombay, accompanied by Sir Philip Wodehouse and held a Levée in the Government Buildings. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V Miss Wodehouse, on the contrary, looked a little ashamed, blushed a pretty pink old-maidenly blush, and mildly remonstrated with papa. The Rector "A professional man never marries till he has a position," said Miss Wodehouse, abstractedly. The Doctor's Family Wodehouse performed the feat of walking one mile in 8 mins. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Miss Wodehouse was not good for much in the house. The Perpetual Curate I told him, to Sir Edmund Wodehouse, the Governor of the Province; and that they related to the establishment of steam mail facilities between this country and that Province. Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post He looked at them with looks which to Miss Wodehouse appeared disapproving, but which in reality meant only surprise and discomfort. The Rector Miss Wodehouse did not understand the look, nor put any significance into the words. The Doctor's Family Lords Wodehouse and Ilchester followed, and predicted a fearful recoil,—a severe and well merited retribution. The History of Tasmania, Volume I It is very discouraging altogether; and you thought he was engaged to Wodehouse's pretty daughter, didn't you? The Perpetual Curate To Alderson is not at all probable, from the part he has taken against the Wodehouse’s, who are the most bigoted and relentless Tories in existence. A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father "But now tell me, my dear," said old Mrs Proctor, "who's Mr Wodehouse?" The Rector "The most sensible thing I've heard of for years—step into the old fellow's practice, and set himself up for life—eh, don't you think so?—that's my opinion," said Mr Wodehouse. The Doctor's Family He could imagine Cranbourne's unbridled enthusiasm, Lord Almont's congratulations in the style of P. G. Wodehouse, and Cassis, that person of dry ashes and parchment, unbending to the greatness of the occasion. Men of Affairs He went up through the lighted street to the inn, wishing the dinner over, and himself on his way back again to call at Mr Wodehouse's. The Perpetual Curate Wodehouse, both to the county and my father, to offer it to him before he promised it to another. A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father Though she was verging upon forty, leisurely, pious, and unmarried, that good Miss Wodehouse was not polemical. The Rector "It isn't Freddy's frock," said Miss Wodehouse, with a little solemnity. The Doctor's Family Wodehouse had been doing excellent work, and the shooting of both Bedfords and Dorsets had had a great effect in keeping off the German attack hereabouts. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 It was Miss Wodehouse who thus pitifully addressed the amazed Curate. The Perpetual Curate It is a Wodehouse novel in every sense of the term. The Girl on the Boat For when Mr Wodehouse took knife and fork in hand a singular result followed. The Rector Miss Wodehouse gazed at her with a certain mild exasperation, shook her head, wrung her hands, but could find nothing to answer. The Doctor's Family A force had already been despatched, under General Wodehouse, to seize the bridge over the Panjkora. Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti But I must appeal to Miss Wodehouse: it is for your own sake, my dear Frank," said aunt Dora—"a clergyman should be so careful. The Perpetual Curate Instead she went to New York and became a member of the chorus of "The Rose of America," and Mr. Wodehouse is enabled to lift the curtain of the musical comedy world. Jill the Reckless Just then the garden-gate—the green gate in the wall—opened to the creaking murmur of Mr Wodehouse's own key. The Rector Was Lucy Wodehouse not enough for him, that he must have Nettie too? The Doctor's Family When I went upstairs I found Wodehouse sitting like patience on a stool, with a number of Britons round him, who wanted to get off out of Paris. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris What could happen?" said Mr Wodehouse, who still looked "limp" from his recent illness, "though I hear there are doubtful people about; so they tell me—but you ought to know best, Wentworth. The Perpetual Curate Mrs. Wodehouse, in her article on song in Grove's "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," calls attention to the injurious action of Italian opera on the English School by breeding indifference to the text. Chopin and Other Musical Essays "My dear children, here's the Rector—delighted to see him! we're all delighted to see him!" cried Mr Wodehouse. The Rector When Nettie had made this unguarded speech, she blushed; and suddenly, in a threatening and defiant manner, raised her eyes again to Miss Wodehouse's face. The Doctor's Family Wodehouse very justly told them that Lord Lyons had given them due notice to leave, and that they had chosen at their own risk to remain. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris "Who is the man in the beard?" said Miss Wodehouse, with a gasp. The Perpetual Curate During the past year a phrase has been frequently heard among magazine and book men in New York when the name of Pelham Granville Wodehouse has been mentioned. The Lighted Match No woman was ever so dismayed by the persecutions of a lover, as was this helpless middle-aged gentleman under the conviction that Lucy Wodehouse meant to marry him. The Rector But Miss Wodehouse had contented herself with loving Lucy—had suffered her to grow up very much as she would, without interference—had never taken a decided part in her life. The Doctor's Family Mr. Wodehouse has remained to look after our interests. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris She looked at her sister keenly with an investigating look, and poor Miss Wodehouse was fain to draw her shawl close round her, and complain again of the cold. The Perpetual Curate Wodehouse was born in Guildford, England, in 1881, and while still an infant he accompanied his parents to Hong Kong, where the elder Wodehouse was a judge. The Lighted Match "Come here, and we'll initiate you—come here as often as you can spare us a little of your time," cried Mr Wodehouse, who had come to a pause in his operations. The Rector Mr Wodehouse's daughters talked over the matter, and settled exactly between themselves what was Miss Marjoribanks's age, and how much older she was than her supposed suitor—a question always interesting to the female mind. The Doctor's Family I left Mr. Wodehouse consulting the text writers upon international law, in order to discover a precedent for the case. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris "No, dear; only reasonable," said Miss Wodehouse, apologetically. The Perpetual Curate Mr. Wodehouse's second novel will be an even greater success than "The Intrusion of Jimmy." The Lighted Match The danger of being married by proxy was appalling certainly, yet was not entirely without alleviations; but Miss Wodehouse! who ever thought of Miss Wodehouse? The Rector From the corner window of the hotel you could see down into the bowery seclusion of Grange Lane, and Mr Wodehouse's famous apple-trees holding tempting clusters over the high wall. The Doctor's Family I called at the Embassy this afternoon, and found our representative, Mr. Wodehouse, confident that Messenger Johnson would arrive at his destination. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Miss Wodehouse has been my great help," said the shopkeeper; "she is the nicest lady, is Miss Wodehouse, in all Carlingford. The Perpetual Curate Mr. Wodehouse had tried his wings here only a few months when magazine editors were bidding for his manuscripts. The Lighted Match "But for all that, Morley, I would not have you forget Miss Wodehouse," she said, when her early bedtime came. The Rector Miss Wodehouse pondered over the handle of her parasol. The Doctor's Family Mr. Wodehouse when I left him was engaged in pacifying a lunatic, who had forced his way into the Embassy, and who insisted that he was the British Ambassador. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris The Rector went very fully into the subject, being drawn out by Miss Leonora's questions, and betrayed an extent of information strangely opposed to the utter ignorance which he had displayed at Mr Wodehouse's party. The Perpetual Curate In it Mr. Wodehouse demonstrated his ability to hold his sprinting speed over a Marathon distance. The Lighted Match Here the Rector was interrupted by a groan from the patient, and by a troubled, disapproving, disappointed look from Lucy Wodehouse. The Rector Miss Wodehouse paused, appalled by the image she herself had conjured up. The Doctor's Family I left Wodehouse explaining to her that if she went out of Paris even with a pass, she might or might not be shot according to circumstances. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris I should be sorry to think that it was necessary to sacrifice Mr Wodehouse for the sake of our painted window," said the Curate, "as that seems what you mean. The Perpetual Curate In Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Ainslee's, and many other publications these stories appear as often as Mr. Wodehouse will contribute. The Lighted Match Miss Wodehouse approached nervously from behind, and went up to the bedside, faltering forth questions as to what she could do. The Rector Miss Wodehouse, who, with a yearning admiration of a creature so totally unlike herself, came often to visit Nettie, ceased to expostulate, almost ceased to wonder. The Doctor's Family Mr. Wodehouse, I understand, intends to leave before the bombardment commences. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Lucy Wodehouse had been down there seeing the sick woman. The Perpetual Curate In personality Mr. Wodehouse is quite as interesting as one might gather from his writings. The Lighted Match At Mr Wodehouse's there was nobody at home but Lucy, who was very friendly, and took no notice of that sad encounter which had changed his views so entirely. The Rector "It depends upon what you think of, whether thinking is a comfort or not," said good Miss Wodehouse. The Doctor's Family At the commencement of the siege I begged Mr. Wodehouse to give me a letter of introduction to M. Jules Ferry, one of the members of the Government. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Somehow he was comforted in his mind by the conviction that it was his duty to call at Mr Wodehouse's as he came back. The Perpetual Curate Mr. Wodehouse says that one epoch of his literary career dates from his purchase of an automobile in 1907. The Lighted Match If good Miss Wodehouse had been there with her charitable looks, and her disefficiency so like his own, it would have been a consolation to the good man. The Rector Miss Wodehouse drew a long sigh, and was by no means disinclined to cry over her little companion. The Doctor's Family When the Embassy left, a sort of deputy-consul remained here; but with a perfect ingenuity of stupidity, the Foreign-office officials ordered this gentleman to withdraw with Mr. Wodehouse, the secretary. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris He asked how Mr Wodehouse did, with a voice which, to himself, sounded hollow and unnatural, and sat down beside the invalid, almost turning his back upon Lucy in his bewilderment. The Perpetual Curate Mr. Wodehouse thought out the major problems of life sitting on the turf near the pole from a more or less lacerated point of view. The Lighted Match You may be sure Lucy Wodehouse and young Wentworth, had it not been "put into their heads" in such an absurd fashion, would never, all their virtuous lives, have dreamt of anything but friendship. The Rector Might not Edward Rider have made that suggestion which had occurred only to Miss Wodehouse? The Doctor's Family I do not think, however, that the delay has been the fault either of Colonel Claremont or of Mr. Wodehouse. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris I wonder if Miss Wodehouse has ever seen him—a great man with a beard? The Perpetual Curate Wodehouse suggests O. Henry only in that he has suddenly come into universal recognition as a remarkable humorist. The Lighted Match Miss Wodehouse knitted on, and took no notice; Lucy began to gather up the flowers into the basket, unable for her life to think of anything to say. The Rector She turned her back upon the lights, and clasped Miss Wodehouse's hand, and said good-night hastily. The Doctor's Family "House is clear, now," his assistant said, stepping out of his P. G. Wodehouse character. Murder in the Gunroom Miss Wodehouse grasped the arm of the Perpetual Curate, and held him with an energy which was almost violence. The Perpetual Curate I know I am oppressive company now, and am apt, like Mr. Wodehouse in ‘Emma,’ to say, ‘Let us all have some gruel.’ Letters from Egypt After an interval which was disturbed only by the groans of the patient and the uneasy fidgeting of good Miss Wodehouse in her corner, the Rector again broke silence. The Rector Nettie, meanwhile, went on at a pace which Miss Wodehouse could not possibly have kept up with, clasping her tiny hands together with a swell of scorn and disdain unusual to it in her heart. The Doctor's Family In those days he was Lord Wodehouse, and the Fenians used to issue mock proclamations, in ridicule of his, signed 'Woodlouse.' The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent I hope you haven't mentioned, sir, as I said Mr Wodehouse was took bad? The Perpetual Curate As to the talk about a settled and firm policy, Sir Philip Wodehouse was the last Governor who had a grand scheme from Downing Street. A Winter Tour in South Africa Miss Wodehouse was here this morning, and was telling me a good deal about the late rector. The Rector Why did not Edward Rider propose the "arrangement" which appeared feasible enough to Miss Wodehouse? The Doctor's Family This oak-panelled room recalls memories of the Orfords, Walpoles, Howards, Wodehouses, and other distinguished guests whose names live in England's annals. Vanishing England Twenty years ago some such companion might have been by Miss Wodehouse's side, but never among the poor people in Prickett's Lane. The Perpetual Curate Dined with Rear-Admiral Walker; Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse and lady were of the party. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter I know very well how such people do; but, my dear," continued this false old lady, scarcely able to restrain her laughter, "if I were you, I would be very civil to Miss Wodehouse. The Rector But Miss Wodehouse had tremulously taken example by the late rector, whose abrupt retirement from the duties for which he did not feel himself qualified, the good people in Carlingford had scarcely stopped discussing. The Doctor's Family Lord Wodehouse, who was in Berlin in December, requested that at least more time should be allowed. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Lucy, my dear," said Miss Wodehouse, whose gentle forehead was puckered with care, "I want to speak to you. The Perpetual Curate I took occasion by this vessel, which returned immediately, to write to the Governor, Sir Philip B. Wodehouse, informing him of my presence here. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The Rector's face lengthened at every word—a vision of these two Miss Wodehouses rose upon him every moment clearer and more distinct as his mother spoke. The Rector When Miss Wodehouse arrived breathless at the conclusion of a speech so unusually long for her, she met Nettie's eyes flashing upon her with the utmost surprise and curiosity. The Doctor's Family The Governor and Mrs. Wodehouse have been very kind to me. Letters from the Cape "Mr Wodehouse's parties are always pleasant," she said. The Perpetual Curate Since Lord Lyons's departure from Paris, the Embassy had remained in the charge of the second Secretary, Mr. Wodehouse, and the Vice-Consul. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 When he got into the street, however, he found himself closely followed by Miss Wodehouse, of whom he was not at this moment afraid. The Rector I suppose so," said Mr Wodehouse; "she's nothing to you, is she, but a little girl you've taken a deal of notice of?—more notice than was wanted, if I am any judge. The Doctor's Family Mr. Wodehouse, who has been very civil to me, kindly tried to get me a passage home in a French frigate lying here, but in vain. Letters from the Cape Lucy Wodehouse, without her grey cloak, stood at the font, holding that last tiny applicant for saving grace, while all the other little heathens were signed with the sacred cross. The Perpetual Curate This was particularly the case with a young non-commissioned officer who jumped on the step of Mr. Wodehouse's break, and engaged us in conversation whilst we continued on our way. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 "Then he did you the greatest of all services," cried the third member of the little group which discussed the new Rector under Mr Wodehouse's blossomed apple-trees. The Rector Mr Wodehouse himself had come merely for the pride and pleasure of seeing how much they were indebted to his little girl; and the attendance of the curate was most easily explainable. The Doctor's Family I went on to bid Mrs. Wodehouse good-bye. Letters from the Cape But that Easter Sunday was not like other Sundays, though Miss Wodehouse could not tell why. The Perpetual Curate Mr. Wodehouse also remained there for a short time. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Dreadful young prig that young Wentworth," said Mr Wodehouse, "but comes of a great family, you know, and gets greatly taken notice of—to be sure he does, child. The Rector If a certain softening of half-tender pity shone in the curate's eye, could Lucy Wodehouse blame him? The Doctor's Family Brigadier-General Wodehouse states that throughout the operations of his force, which involved considerable fatigue and exposure to heat and rain, the spirit of his troops left nothing to be desired. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War And just then the door was opened, and Mr Wodehouse's sole male servant looked out, and round the garden, as if he had heard something to excite his curiosity or surprise. The Perpetual Curate Again, the rain was now pouring in torrents, to the very great discomfort of the occupants of the carts, as well as that of Mr. Wodehouse's party in the break. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 "I trust you will like Carlingford, Mr Proctor," said Miss Wodehouse, mildly. The Rector "What do you want to talk to her for?" asked the little girl, gazing coldly in Miss Wodehouse's face. The Doctor's Family The general, trained and hardened by years of shooting of all kinds in the jungles, arrived at the top first, followed by Brigadier-General Wodehouse, and a panting staff. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War "You seem to take a great interest in Wodehouse?" said Mr Wentworth. The Perpetual Curate In due course a letter was obtained from the Embassy, signed not, I think, by Lord Lyons himself, but by one of the secretaries—perhaps Sir Edward Malet, or Mr. Wodehouse, or even Mr. Sheffield. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 He was especially embarrassed and uncomfortable in the presence of the two Miss Wodehouses, who, unfortunately, were very popular in Carlingford, and whom he could not help meeting everywhere. The Rector "We never have any tea till Nettie comes back," added his sister, looking full once more into Miss Wodehouse's face. The Doctor's Family At the same time he ordered Brigadier-General Wodehouse to detach a small column in the direction of the southern passes of Buner. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War "As for Wodehouse, I partly understand what he has done," said the Curate. The Perpetual Curate Moreover, Great Britain had not recognized the French Republic, so that the position of Mr. Wodehouse was a somewhat difficult one. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Near the door stood Miss Wodehouse, looking compassionate but helpless, casting wistful glances at the bed, but standing back in a corner as confused and embarrassed as the Rector himself. The Rector "What was that you said about your heart?" said Miss Wodehouse. The Doctor's Family After General Wodehouse was wounded the command of the 3rd Brigade devolved upon Colonel Graves. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War What Jack Wentworth was, Tom Wodehouse could never be; but at least he could follow his great model humbly and afar off. The Perpetual Curate With him went most of the Embassy staff, British interests in Paris remaining in the hands of the second secretary, Mr. Wodehouse, and the vice-consul. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 With this speech Miss Wodehouse held out her hand to the Rector, and they parted with a warm mutual grasp. The Rector Miss Wodehouse kissed her quite suddenly, touching with her soft old cheek that rounder, fairer, youthful face, which turned, half wondering, half pleased, with the look of a child, to receive her caress. The Doctor's Family I went to my bookshelves and pulled out my P. G. Wodehouse reprints. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 "By your brother?" said Miss Wodehouse, with her unfailing instinct of interest in other people. The Perpetual Curate My father and myself had kept in touch with Mr. Wodehouse, from whom we learnt that we should have to apply to the German General commanding at Versailles with respect to any further safe-conducts. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 At Wodehouse Manor, therefore, we drive off from the front door—in order to get the benefit of the door-mat—down an entry fairway, carpeted with rugs and without traps. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories But now the time predicted by Miss Wodehouse had arrived. The Doctor's Family By this time, I had also scanned and OCR'd a couple more Wodehouse reprints and a short book of poetry. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 I will do what I can to help you out of this," said the Curate, pausing within the door of Wodehouse's room, "for the sake of your—friends. The Perpetual Curate "Surely, Mr. Wodehouse," said he, "you need only have gone to Baron de Rothschild—he would have let you have whatever money you required." My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 The other is a humorous novel by P. G. Wodehouse, based on the picture book. William Tell Told Again "Don't say anything so foolish," said Miss Wodehouse, a little nettled. The Doctor's Family I planned to process an occasional reference book in addition to all the Wodehouse I could get my hands on. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 But look here, Wodehouse; I have not preached to you hitherto, and I don't mean to do so now. The Perpetual Curate Unfortunately, they had not acceded to that proposal when Lord Wodehouse went to Copenhagen, and when the concession might have been effectual. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 Two men stood out prominently as candidates—Colonel Wodehouse, who held the command of the Halfa Field Force, and the Adjutant-General. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan She cast one dismayed look back towards the cottage, and another at Miss Wodehouse. The Doctor's Family But, in the meantime, there are 23 new Wodehouse books in PG thanks to Distributed Proofreaders, not to mention such remnants of early 20th century popular culture as The Sheik. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 He was in this state of mind when Miss Wodehouse came to him, moving with noiseless steps, as everybody did in the stricken house. The Perpetual Curate When Lord Wodehouse went to Berlin on his way to Copenhagen he endeavoured, according to the instructions he had received, to obtain some explanations from the Prussian Government on this point. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 It was, indeed, astonishing how many extremely necessary and natural "calls of duty" should bring Mr Wentworth's path parallel to that of the Wodehouses. The Doctor's Family I have got other things to do, Miss Wodehouse. The Doctor's Family "Papa, pray—pray don't talk nonsense," said Miss Wodehouse, with gentle indignation. The Doctor's Family "Oh, Mr Wentworth, somebody will see him," cried Miss Wodehouse, wringing her hands. The Perpetual Curate While Lord Wodehouse was repairing to his post, did the Secretary of State in the least falter in his tone? Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 "If you make a noise, you shall not go," said Nettie; and then came back alert, with her rapid fairy steps, to Miss Wodehouse's side. The Doctor's Family At Mr Wodehouse's door he stumbled against young Wentworth coming out, and passed him with a muttered exclamation which startled the curate. The Doctor's Family I am sorry, very sorry too, Miss Wodehouse. The Doctor's Family "Oh, no; it was only Mr Wentworth—and a—gentleman who came to fetch him," said Miss Wodehouse. The Perpetual Curate Lord Wodehouse received clear instructions as to what he was to do. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 Then I shall go on, dear, if you have no objection, and ask when the doctor and Nettie are coming home," said Miss Wodehouse, "and take poor little Freddy the cakes I promised him. The Doctor's Family Do you imagine," cried the brilliant creature, flashing round upon poor Miss Wodehouse, so as to dazzle and confuse that gentlewoman, "that a man has only to intend such a thing and it's all settled? The Doctor's Family Miss Wodehouse turned with her, taking Freddy's other hand—a proceeding to which that hero rather demurred. The Doctor's Family "By Jove, my name is Wodehouse, though," he said, in the argumentative tone which seemed habitual to him; his voice came low and grumbling through his beard. The Perpetual Curate Lord Wodehouse could not possibly be at fault as to what he was to do when he arrived at his destination. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 So saying the sisters separated; and Miss Wodehouse took her gentle way to the doctor's house, where everything had been brightened up, and where Freddy waited the return of his chosen guardians. The Doctor's Family Miss Wodehouse went in at the invitation of Mary to see the little drawing-room which the master of the house had provided for his wife. The Doctor's Family |
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