The Best of Jeeves and Wooster - A Classic Collection (Unabridged) (ePub)

SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE was born on October 16, 1881, the third son of British magistrate Henry Ernest Wodehouse and his wife Eleanor. Young Wodehouse was not fond of his given names - "Pelham" and "Grenville" - and shortened it to "P.G." in his written works and answered to the nickname "Plum" amongst his friends and family.Educated and Dulwich College (an institution to which he remained devoted his entire life), Wodehouse began a career as a banker - a career he actively loathed - before turning to writing. His earliest stories were based on his life as a student (including his first novel, "The Pothunters," published in 1902) and were often serialized to great success, but it wasn't until he turned full-time to comic fiction that his career took off.Wodehouse was a prolific and tireless writer, churning out short stories, plays and novels at an astonishing rate for his entire life, in a career that lasted a breathtaking seventy-five years. His stable of literary characters included the sly, smooth Psmith, the charming and affable "Uncle Fred" Ickenham, Lord Emsworth, Pongo Twistleton and the rest of the habitués of Blandings Castle (the plot-lines of which often involved very large pigs), Madeleine Bassett, Bingo Little, Catsmeat Potter-Purbright, Mr. Mulliner and many, many others, none more beloved than the foppish gentleman of leisure Bertie Wooster and his unflappable and brainy manservant Jeeves.In addition to his literary fiction, Wodehouse was also a contributor to or writer of both plays and musicals, for which he provided both dialogue and lyrics, working with such Broadway luminaries as Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern.In the early 30's, Wodehouse fled England for France to avoid burdensome British taxes and was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. Released after a one-year's imprisonment, Wodehouse was forced to remain in Germany and was persuaded by his captors to make radio broadcasts - innocuous and comical, he believed - for the German

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