Author

P. G. Wodehouse

1881–1975 4 volumes Comedy & Satire

The life

P. G. Wodehouse was an English humorist who created Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle, and wrote some ninety books and the lyrics to thirty musicals. Interned by the Germans in 1940, he made five broadcasts from Berlin that were taken in Britain as collaboration; he never returned home, becoming an American citizen, and was knighted at ninety-three, six weeks before his death.

Where to start

Indiscretions of Archie

224 pages — the shortest way into Wodehouse, not the greatest.

It wasn’t Archie’s fault really. Its true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her—well, what else was there to do?

Paintings from these volumes