PG Tips
I don’t do a lot of re-reading … I generally read the book that I have on hand and then move onto the next. But there are a few exceptions, and at the moment I’m in the middle of re-reading one of my favorite authors ever — PG Wodehouse.
Wodehouse wrote dozens and dozens of books, and is probably most famous for his books featuring Jeeves, the consummate gentleman’s gentleman. Without Jeeves, his employer Bertie Wooster would be quite incapable of functioning. The Jeeves and Wooster stories are unmatched for their clever wit and style and complete irrelevance to anything in my life today. Wodehouse is complete escapism, a way to fling myself into a world quite different to anything I’ve ever known.
He writes primarily about the period between 1910 and 1930, or thereabouts, and the majority of his characters can loosely be described as “the idle rich”. Lots of minor aristocracy, country houses, butlers, parlor maids, and opportunities for long trips to the South of France. Strangely, none of these things have much prominence in my day-to-day life. But Wodehouse’s language is an absolute delight — his ability to skewer the pompous, pretentious, or prissy, is unmatched.
I recommended Wodhouse to dozens of people in the bookstore I work in. Several of them have taken up my suggestion, and I’m glad to say that I’ve created some real Wodehouse fans here in town.
If you’re looking for a book with which to begin, I suggest skipping Wodehouse’s earliest works and jumping straight into the Jeeves stories with Carry On Jeeves, the book in which Jeeves and Bertie Wooster first make each others’ acquaintance.
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