Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse.
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@JoBlakely Thank you! He was perhaps the best writer of British comedic fiction of all time. If you’re curious I’d start with one of the Jeeves books, which are generally considered to be his best.
@morganth good to know! I’m definitely curious!
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Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.
It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.
@morganth That is an incredible moment of satisfaction, and also literal years of joy to come!
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@morganth That is an incredible moment of satisfaction, and also literal years of joy to come!
@whitneymcn It sure is! There will be so many evenings of laughter.
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Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.
It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.
@morganth
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@Quasit You won’t believe this. Literally the one I started with.
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@Quasit It was actually one of the first Wodehouses I ever read, back when I was a teen, and I was hooked right from there.
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Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.
It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.
As I re-read “Leave it to Psmith”, I’m realizing for the first time that The Efficient Baxter is basically Malvolio from “Twelfth Night”. Wodehouse has to have done that on purpose, right? He was well-educated, he would have known one of the great comedic put-upon characters of Shakespeare.
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Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.
It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.
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Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.
It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.
@morganth I checked out the audiobook for My Man Jeeves because of this post & the replies. It’s so great but I only just realized it was published in 1919?! I’m looking forward to more of his books!
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