The Good and Bad of Buying Wodehouse
Apr. 1st, 2010 07:03 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
I purchased my first Wodehouse novel today; I read many in the library, but started mourning my lack of true ownership and set off to Barnes and Noble to resolve the dilemma. However, my joy turned to horror when I opened the first page to see these words (albeit this is a slightly abridged version):
The Libary of Congress has cataloged this paper back as:
Jeeves and the Tie that Binds | P.G. Wodehouse.
1. Jeeves (fictitious character) 2. Wooster, Bertie (fictitious character)
3. Single men - fiction 4. Butlers - fiction 5. England - fiction
Not even the Library of Congress is willing to recognize the difference between a Valet and a Butler. What a travesty.
BUT ON THE GOOD SIDE . . .
The cover actually is rather nice and doesn't make me cringe in pain (as most Wodehouse covers do.) Sorry about the fuzzy picture quality, but here it is.
And one of the clues in my crossword puzzle in New York Magazine today was "Gentlemen's gentleman."
Yup, you guessed it, the answer was five letters: v-a-l-e-t. This made me extremely happy.