Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse.

[whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz]

@morganth That is an incredible moment of satisfaction, and also literal years of joy to come!

[morganth@social.tchncs.de]

@whitneymcn It sure is! There will be so many evenings of laughter.

[kevinhuigens@genealysis.social]

@morganth
You are a very lucky person

[morganth@social.tchncs.de]

@jet @clew He also wrote for Broadway and Hollywood, believe it or not. I can’t imagine how.

[morganth@social.tchncs.de]

@Quasit You won’t believe this. Literally the one I started with.

[morganth@social.tchncs.de]

@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.

[saruwine@mementomori.social]

@morganth @jet @clew Well, the fact that he published his first novel when he was 21 years old and his last when he was 93 probably helped.

[morganth@social.tchncs.de]

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.

#wodehouse

[archergal@wandering.shop]

@morganth @GramrgednAngel #jealous

[mathsciwhy@cupoftea.social]

@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!