Wodehouse
Subtitle: a life
By: Robert McCrum.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Wodehouse, P. G. -- 1881-1975; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography; Humorous stories -- Authorship
Genres: Biography.
Description: Many consider him the most brilliant comic writer of the twentieth century. He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). He had an extraordinary Broadway career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even dared to rewrite Cole Porter's Anything Goes for the London stage. This biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [510]-516) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Does aught befall you? It is good'; title: I: Getting started (1881-1914); title: 'My childhood went like a breeze' (1881-1894); title: "The boy, what will he become?' (1894-1900); title: 'First-fruits of a genius' (1900-1902); title: 'My wild lone' (1902-1904); title: 'I have arrived' (1904-1909); title: 'I want to butt into the big league' (1909-1914); title: II: Something new (1914-1929); title: 'An angel in human form' (1914-1915); title: 'Musical comedy was my dish (1916-1918); title: 'A bloke called Bertie Wooster' (1918-1923); title: 'All dizzy with work' (1924-1927); title: 'I am planning a vast campaign' (1927-1929); title: III: In the chips (1930-1939); title: 'I altered all the characters to Earls and butlers' (1930-1931); title: 'My worst year since I started writing' (1932-1934); title: "The one ideal spot in the world' (1934-1936); title: 'I am leading a very quiet life here' (1936-1937); title: 'I have become a biggish bug these days' (1937-1939); title: IV: Disgrace (1940-1947); title: 'The hors d'oeuvre in fate's banquet (1940); title: 'Camp was really great fun' (1940-1941); title: 'It was a loony thing to do' (June 1941); title: 'The global howl' (July 1941); title: 'Now I shall have nothing to worry about until 1944' (1941-1943); title: 'I made an ass of myself, and must pay the penalty' (1943-1947); title: V: Atonement (1947-1975); title: 'My world has been shot to pieces (1947-1951); title: 'Our slogan must be entertainment' (1951-1954); title: 'I keep plugging away at my art' (1955-1961); title: 'The grand old man of English literature' (1961-1975); title: The afterlife of P.G. Wodehouse.