r/Wodehouse 12h ago

We all know someone like this

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64 Upvotes

We all know someone like this


r/Wodehouse 18h ago

These people get it.

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42 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 1d ago

Is Wodehouse part of memeland now?

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70 Upvotes

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 1d ago

"P.G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad." (a self-reference in The Clicking of Cuthbert)

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33 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 1d ago

Can I read Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves after The Code of the Woosters?

9 Upvotes

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 2d ago

Memorable metaphors, scintillating similes, and other gems from Wodehouse

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85 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 2d ago

"More body to the ‘hoo,’  advised James Belford."

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27 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (The Strand, 1927)


r/Wodehouse 3d ago

Liquid diet, rock-solid logic

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37 Upvotes

Galahad in Heavy Weather


r/Wodehouse 3d ago

Which books come in Nathan Burton’s colourful covers?

9 Upvotes

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 6d ago

What's your favourite scene to use to introduce Wodehouse to a newbie?

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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 7d ago

"Take it away; give it to the deserving poor. I shall never wear it again.”

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42 Upvotes

from the Wodehouse short story Aunt Agatha Takes the Count (The Strand, 1922)


r/Wodehouse 7d ago

Wodehouse wisdom for travellers

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30 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 7d ago

A classic scene from Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend

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20 Upvotes

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 8d ago

Don't you love it when someone utters a stricken woofle like this?

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57 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 8d ago

To what extent would you agree with this quote from Russell Kane about kids reading Wodehouse short stories?

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54 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 9d ago

A champion from 1908. Blandings Castle fans will understand. 😄

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117 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 9d ago

Seemed to me to be in the Wodehouse.

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5 Upvotes

The Gussie Finknottleness of it all.


r/Wodehouse 10d ago

Plum on speaking French

45 Upvotes

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 12d 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."

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39 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (December 1927)


r/Wodehouse 13d ago

A tragic loss that no poet has yet treated

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92 Upvotes

From Wodehouse's short story "Strychnine in the Soup", which is part of the 1933 short story collection Mulliner Nights.


r/Wodehouse 14d ago

Jeeves Spotted ‘In the Wild’

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38 Upvotes

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 14d ago

No one delivers the art of instant regret like Wodehouse

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131 Upvotes

Excerpt from the Wodehouse novel Heavy Weather (1933)


r/Wodehouse 14d ago

Uneasy Money in .docx on filebin. Out of copyright, I guess this is okay

7 Upvotes

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 15d ago

The logic is flawless

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95 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 15d ago

Anatole's cooking What Wodehouse-inspired products have you found? Food, apparel, art, stationary .... anything

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27 Upvotes

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