P.G. Wodehouse: The Authorized Biography by Frances
Donaldson. Hardcover book published by
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1982, 399 pages with some black and white photographs
and a few black and white illustrations.
I have to admit, I am a fan.
It’s only been in the last 5 or 6 years that I have begun to savour the
world of P.G. Wodehouse. Strangely, I am
also very aware that a younger me would not have appreciated his oeuvre at
all. I think it has something to do with
getting older and wiser and it is this aged wisdom that has made me appreciate
the sublimely ridiculous scenarios that Wodehouse unfolds. Seriously, this guy is funny. Wodehouse has been known to make me guffaw
out loud in the midst of a silent read, which sadly, is something this reader hardly
ever does.
Discovering Wodehouse was an awesome experience,
particularly when I discovered how much he wrote over his short 93 years of scribbling. Sadly, if I read a Wodehouse book a year for
the rest of my life, I probably wont make it through his extensive back
catalogue… Which is why I wont be reading this biography. There’s too much Wodehouse out there to read
and enjoy before I can get to a biography and besides I don’t know that knowing
“the truth of the whole sad episode of his broadcasts from Germany during the
war”*, is something that will enlighten my appreciation of the Wodehouse world…
…OK, maybe I do need to read a biography.
*From the publishers blurb.
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