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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as 'Plum') wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language. Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler's Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club. In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine's Day.
A tangled foregathering of Bertie Wooster and his problem friends presages well for P.G.W. followers. Here and now Our Bertie is confronted with several missions: to keep good old Gussie Fink-Nottle (who loves newts) engaged - to the girl who will take Bertie as second choice; to get Stiffy, an eager hand for polite blackmail, married to Stinker (who is trying to make it from curate to vicar so the wedding bells will ring); to keep himself from being annihilated by Sir Watkyn or dismembered by Roderick Spode, lately Lord Sidcup; to keep a certain statuette from wandering too far afield from Sir W. It does not take too dim an e. to see that it is Our Jeeves, emolliently assuaging, who keeps Our Bertie from being too uncomfortable on the horns of a.....and merges the victor over the affair of his employer's alpine hat with a pink feather....And what a fine, feathered, fettle it turns out to be.... Larky, this. (Kirkus Reviews)
