CIRCLE WITH A DOT

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

@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.

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

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

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

@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.

@nancylwayne He was incredibly prolific! I love his work.

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.

#books #wodehouse