Aunts Aren't Gentlemen Jeeves, 15 by P. Heavy Weather Blandings Castle, 5 by P. The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. Wodehouse 3. A Damsel in Distress by P.
Life at Blandings by P. Love Among the Chickens Ukridge, 1 by P. Uneasy Money by P. Piccadilly Jim by P. Laughing Gas by P. Blandings Castle My Man Jeeves Jeeves 1 by P.
Hot Water by P. If I Were You by P. Cocktail Time by P. Full Moon Blandings Castle, 7 by P. Mulliner Nights Mr. Mulliner, 3 by P. Psmith, Journalist Psmith, 3 by P.
Summer Moonshine by P. The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. Service with a Smile Blandings Castle, 9 by P. The Girl on the Boat by P. Galahad at Blandings Blandings Castle, 10 by P. The Heart of a Goof by P. Money in the Bank by P. Uncle Dynamite Uncle Fred, 2 by P. Lord Emsworth and Others Blandings Castle, 5. The Girl in Blue by P. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P. Bachelors Anonymous by P. Indiscretions of Archie by P. Mike and Psmith Psmith, 1 by P. Money for Nothing by P. Big Money by P. The Golf Omnibus by P.
The Little Nugget by P. Meet Mr Mulliner by P. The Small Bachelor by P. The Luck of the Bodkins by P. Mulliner Speaking Mr. Mulliner, 2 by P. Young Men in Spats by P. Ukridge by P. Company for Henry by P. Auden describes why characters can live on beyond and outside their novels, and why innocence matters — which strikes me as rather fascinating and important, if we are going to think about why Wodehouse has had such appeal to such a wide range of people, including Wittgenstein , Salman Rushdie and the late Queen Mother.
As Auden says, characters like this just seem to endure. The list goes on. You need them within the structure and rhythm of the stories themselves. He worked and worked at his plots. The details came easily to him, and that was the sort of writing that he enjoyed, but the plotting was more difficult.
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Paul French on Shanghai Novels. Emily Wilson on The Odyssey. Thereafter, he hardly looked back. With the Jeeves and Wooster stories that followed, his reputation was made. Throughout the inter-war period Wodehouse wrote a succession of novels, notably Thank You, Jeeves, Heavy Weather and The Code of the Woosters, which show him at his most inspired.
Thank You, Jeeves, the first full-length Jeeves novel, is constructed like a classical romance in which a couple here Bertie Wooster and his manservant quarrel, separate, and are reconciled. In the course of one short summer night, Bertie suffers a succession of humiliations but manages to avoid getting engaged to the wrong girl.
Heavy Weather, among Wodehouse's greatest, is a kind of sequel to Summer Lightning, though it stands alone. The plot turns on the protagonists' quest for the manuscript of Galahad Threepwood's scandalous memoirs, and the thwarted romance of Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown. As a coda to these years, there's another outing for Bertie and Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, celebrated for its portrait of the British fascist leader of the Black Shorts, Sir Roderick Spode, and for some of Wodehouse's most quotable lines, for instance "if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled".
By the end of the 30s, Wodehouse's great days were drawing to a close, but there is still the late masterpiece to come, Joy in the Morning, the novel he was writing when the Germans invaded France in May There would be another 30 years of sublime comic invention, but the world he was describing was gone.
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