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P.G. Wodehouse

Born

in Guildford, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

October 15, 1881

Died

February 14, 1975

Website

http://www.wodehouse.co.uk/

Genre

Fiction, Humor, Music

Influences

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 524,075 ratings · 46,144 reviews · 1,740 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 47,888 ratings — published 1919 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) 4.32 avg rating — 32,968 ratings — published 1938 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6) 4.29 avg rating — 32,892 ratings — published 1934 — 212 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 31,429 ratings — published 1923 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 28,041 ratings — published 1925 — 298 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5) 4.18 avg rating — 20,109 ratings — published 1934 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4) 4.31 avg rating — 14,111 ratings — published 1930 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8) 4.28 avg rating — 13,679 ratings — published 1947 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 13,383 ratings — published 1915 — 289 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leave It to Psmith (Psmith, #4) 4.28 avg rating — 12,818 ratings — published 1923 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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