The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse
by P.G. Wodehouse
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Author: P.G. WodehouseEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-11-01
ISBN: 0743203585
Number of pages: 672
Publisher: Touchstone
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Book Review: A WALK ON THE SILLY SIDE
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not so much a review - more a prayer of thanks.
I had got through a fair proportion of my life before I fell into deep Wodehouse via this wondrous tome. Scandalously, I had gone round avoiding Wodehouse on the ground that he was just too "silly". Everyone said so - although I did note obscurely that Everyone usually had a twinkle in his eye. Back in those distant days I prefered my humour to be of the more robust and acrid sort as dispensed by the (now cruelly under-noticed) Stephen Leacock, the hidden star of Canada.
However, this innocent looking collection was dropped into my lap one Christmastide, and smiling uncertainly now and then, I nibbled my way safely to the third story, which is called The Amazing Hat Mystery. I was at the point where a young woman is informing her bemused young man that he is wearing a size of hat far too big for his head, and that he looks ridiculous in it; he ripostes stoutly that he isn't, and doesn't. They fume about it for a bit and then they both stamp off, never to be romantic with each other again. I have no idea why this cursory exchange had me in sudden shrieks of helpless laughter, without even a warning build-up of giggles - but that is the case, and I have belonged to Wodehouse ever since.
Actually, I think I DO have the secret - it is in the simple fact that Wodehouse is so heroically, divinely and sublimely SILLY. The Upanisads, the great spiritual texts of India, have been called the Himalayas of the Soul: very well, then, Wodehouse should rightfully be deemed the Himalayas of Humour. Because you can go no further. But I go further - that there really should be a religion founded in his honour; that it should be called, naturally, SILLYISM: and that its startled but happy devotees should be called, of course, SILLYUNS. They will be unfailingly happy creatures, these gilded Sillyuns - for they have been invaded and occupied by the benign Spirit of Wodehouse, and they have no wish to be free.
Now, The Most of Wodehouse is but one of innumerable holy books. The Everyman Best of Wodehouse is also a real treat for beginners. But really, wherever you choose to roam in Wodehouse-land, the world is simply your Plum.*
* Wodehouse's nickname
Summary of The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse
The most lavish P. G. Wodehouse collection ever published. In addition to Wodehouse's best known and beloved Jeeves and Bertie stories, The Most of P. G. Wodehouse features delightful stories about The Drones Club and its affable, vacuous members: Mr. Mulliner, whose considered judgment on any and all topics is drawn from the experiences of his innumerable relatives; Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, the man of gilt-edged schemes; and Lord Emsworth, ruler of all he surveys at Blanding's Castle. Rounding out the collection are Wodehouses's witty golf stories and a complete and completely hilarious novel, Quick Service. As Jeeves would say, "The mind boggles, sir."Classics Books
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