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P.G. Wodehouse

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P.G. Wodehouse


Born
in Guildford, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
October 15, 1881

Died
February 14, 1975

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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English litera
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Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)

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The Code of the Woosters (J...

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The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeev...

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Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

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Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)

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Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves,...

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Joy in the Morning (Jeeves,...

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Leave It to Psmith (Psmith,...

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Something Fresh (Blandings ...

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Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse  (?)
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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
P.G. Wodehouse

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
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