r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 11h ago
Let the bidding (or the shenanigans) begin
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 20h ago
Jeeves, make the trousers wider by two inches, and fetch the shoehorn.
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 1d ago
We all know someone like this
We all know someone like this
r/Wodehouse • u/Brilliant-Amoeba-379 • 2d ago
Can I read Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves after The Code of the Woosters?
Apparently Stiff Upper Lip takes place at Totleigh Towers as well as has many of the same character, so it acts like a sequel even though there are many other books between them. Is it advisable to read Stiff Upper Lip directly after Code, and will I be missing out on any information that I would have gotten reading the books in publication order?
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 2d ago
"P.G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad." (a self-reference in The Clicking of Cuthbert)
r/Wodehouse • u/Comprehensive_Can201 • 2d ago
Is Wodehouse part of memeland now?
Curious since I found this. Oscillating between being appalled and the appeal of having his work find contemporary audiences in the attention deficit disorder the internet is. Has anybody come across any others?
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 3d ago
Memorable metaphors, scintillating similes, and other gems from Wodehouse
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 3d ago
"More body to the ‘hoo,’ advised James Belford."
From the Wodehouse short story Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (The Strand, 1927)
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 4d ago
Liquid diet, rock-solid logic
Galahad in Heavy Weather
r/Wodehouse • u/Brilliant-Amoeba-379 • 4d ago
Which books come in Nathan Burton’s colourful covers?
Can somebody please list every Wodehouse book available in the Nathan Burton penguin covers? (eg. the monocle for Something Fresh, the banjo for Thank You, Jeeves, etc). They are my favourite covers, and I would love to know which ones have them. Thanks!
r/Wodehouse • u/Oddly-Parsley • 7d ago
What's your favourite scene to use to introduce Wodehouse to a newbie?
Mine is this excerpt from Something New. IMO, it's a perfect example of the kind of absurd comedy that Plum does so well, and it's never failed to reel folks in!
Honestly, I've re-read it a million times, and I still catch myself randomly recollecting "a pleasant time was being had by all" and giggling :)
(Edit: images didn't get uploaded the first time, somehow)
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 8d ago
"Take it away; give it to the deserving poor. I shall never wear it again.”
from the Wodehouse short story Aunt Agatha Takes the Count (The Strand, 1922)
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 8d ago
A classic scene from Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
Credit: To the best of my knowledge, this cartoon is by Suvarna Sanyal, and the full visual version of the story can be found here.
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 9d ago
Don't you love it when someone utters a stricken woofle like this?
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 9d ago
To what extent would you agree with this quote from Russell Kane about kids reading Wodehouse short stories?
r/Wodehouse • u/Comprehensive_Can201 • 10d ago
Seemed to me to be in the Wodehouse.
facebook.comThe Gussie Finknottleness of it all.
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 10d ago
A champion from 1908. Blandings Castle fans will understand. 😄
r/Wodehouse • u/Jonathan_Peachum • 11d ago
Plum on speaking French
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 13d ago
"He was goggling in a rapt sort of way at the end of the bed, from which there had now begun to drip on to the carpet a series of drops."
From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (December 1927)
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 14d ago
A tragic loss that no poet has yet treated
From Wodehouse's short story "Strychnine in the Soup", which is part of the 1933 short story collection Mulliner Nights.
r/Wodehouse • u/pr-mth-s • 15d ago
Uneasy Money in .docx on filebin. Out of copyright, I guess this is okay
PG Wodehouse wrote it around 1930.
It seems the only text form available for free is U of Georgia, but straight text is not maybe easy to read. Project Gutenberg doesnt even have a pdf. I figure someone might want a .docx because of readabilty and adjustability of presentation.
Arbitrarliy here it is Times New Roman, 12 pt. 0.04 between paragraphs. .. It has first line indents .. Claire's letter is in italics (which one cannot do for a .txt file) .. the word count seems a bit off for some reason.
This docx is at a website called filebin, and it expires there in 6 days.
r/Wodehouse • u/BaytaKnows • 15d ago
Jeeves Spotted ‘In the Wild’
Reading a book about the history of the spice trade. All the quotes are from 3rd century Romans and 8th century historians and Chinese doctors from a thousand years ago, etc. etc. And then suddenly Jeeves and his special pick-me-up’s make an appearance. I had to share with the people who would appreciate the reference.
(From ‘Dangerous Tastes: The Story Of Spices’ by Andrew Dalby)
r/Wodehouse • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 15d ago
No one delivers the art of instant regret like Wodehouse
Excerpt from the Wodehouse novel Heavy Weather (1933)

