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indeedsir_backupThe Guardian is doing a series on the 1000 books everyone should read: today's comedy, and there's a nice article on PG Wodehouse:
Thank You, Jeeves, the first full-length Jeeves novel, is constructed like a classical romance in which a couple (here Bertie Wooster and his manservant) quarrel, separate, and are reconciled.
Thank You, Jeeves, the first full-length Jeeves novel, is constructed like a classical romance in which a couple (here Bertie Wooster and his manservant) quarrel, separate, and are reconciled.
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Date: 2009-01-20 12:03 pm (UTC)Huzzah for The Guardian!
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Date: 2009-01-20 01:06 pm (UTC)The Lady 529
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Date: 2009-01-20 04:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing the article!
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Date: 2009-01-20 06:20 pm (UTC)Greekromance at its finest, indeed.no subject
Date: 2009-01-20 06:35 pm (UTC)(and comment giggle)
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Date: 2009-01-20 06:56 pm (UTC)Just one tiny point of disagreement
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Date: 2009-01-25 01:10 am (UTC)I agree with 'honoriaplum' (LOL) that PG's finest days weren't over after the onset of WWII. I wouldn't want to read the Blandings or any other books a second time around, only the Jeeves books, but I thought they were every bit as good as any of his other books.
It's true that it is really for Jeeves that PG was most famous and is most remembered, but that is not to take anything away from the rest of his hilarious works, Psmith being a notable example. I loved reading it all when I was young, though I found that a little of the golfing elder went a long way. :)
I'm gleeful about PG secretly wanting to slash J&W and not being too secretive about it. Most slash fandoms consist of wishful thinking and the knowledge that it isn't true. In the Jeeves fandom, it's such fun that PG wanted them to be bisexual and only didn't because of the times in which he lived.
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