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P. G. Wodehouse [ˈwʊdhaʊs], kurz für Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Spitzname Plum , war ein Schriftsteller. Wodehouse, der als typischer britischer Humorist gilt, verbrachte allerdings den größten Teil seines Lebens außerhalb von Großbritannien und wurde 1955 amerikanischer Staatsbürger.

Wodehouse hinterließ ein sehr umfangreiches Werk: Zwischen 1902 und 1974 publizierte er mehr als 90 Romane, vierzig Theaterstücke und zweihundert Kurzgeschichten und Essays. Zu seinen bekanntesten literarischen Figuren gehören Bertram Wooster, sein Kammerdiener Jeeves, seine Tanten Agatha und Dahlia sowie die auf Blandings Castle spielenden Romane mit Lord Emsworth, Galahad Threepwood und dem Mastschwein, der „Kaiserin von Blandings“ als wesentliche Protagonisten.

Einige seiner Romane gelten als Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die britische Zeitung The Guardian nahm 2009 mehrere seiner Romane in die Liste der 1000 Romane auf, die jeder gelesen haben muss. Robert McCrum führt Ohne mich, Jeeves! in der im Guardian veröffentlichen Liste der 100 besten englischsprachigen Romane auf. 2015 wählten 82 internationale Literaturkritiker und -wissenschaftler Alter Adel rostet nicht zu einem der bedeutendsten britischen Romane. John le Carré dagegen hat in einem 1996 veröffentlichten Zeitungsartikel festgehalten, dass jede Büchersammlung ein wohlgelesenes Exemplar von Dann eben nicht, Jeeves mit der meisterlichen Beschreibung einer missratenen Preisvergabe durch den betrunkenen Gussie Fink-Nottle enthalten müsse.

Mehrere der Wodehouse-Romane wurden für das Fernsehen bearbeitet. Unter anderem wurde im britischen Fernsehen The World of Wooster zwischen 1965 und 1967 ausgestrahlt, und in der die Hauptrollen von Ian Carmichael und Dennis Price gespielt wurden. 1990 bis 1993 wurde Jeeves and Wooster – Herr und Meister mit Hugh Laurie als Bertie und Stephen Fry gezeigt.

Nachdem deutschsprachige Übersetzungen von Wodehouse-Romanen lange Zeit vergriffen waren, hat der Schweizer Verlag Edition Epoca im Jahr 2000 damit begonnen, die Romane in neuen Übersetzungen von Thomas Schlachter neu aufzulegen.

✵ 15. Oktober 1881 – 14. Februar 1975  •  Andere Namen పి. జి. వుడ్‌హౌస్
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P.G. Wodehouse Berühmte Zitate

„Es gibt keine sicherere Grundlage für eine schöne Freundschaft als einen gegenseitigen Geschmack in der Literatur.“

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„Es ist eine gute Regel im Leben, sich niemals zu entschuldigen. Die richtige Art von Menschen will keine Entschuldigung, und die falsche Art nutzt sie gemein aus.“

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P.G. Wodehouse: Zitate auf Englisch

“It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”

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“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Love Among the Chickens

Quelle: Love Among the Chickens

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Adventures of Sally

Quelle: The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Small Bachelor

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“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Carry On, Jeeves

Quelle: Carry on, Jeeves

“In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.”

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“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Something Fresh

Quelle: Something Fresh

“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”

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“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”

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Quelle: Jeeves in the Morning

“What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Carry On, Jeeves

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“It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Doctor Sally

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“Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.”

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Quelle: Very Good, Jeeves!

“Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Quelle: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

“She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Quelle: Carry on, Jeeves

“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Girl in Blue

Quelle: The Girl in Blue (1970)

“Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Carry On, Jeeves

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“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”

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Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)

“We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Inimitable Jeeves

Quelle: The Inimitable Jeeves

“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Adventures of Sally

Quelle: The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”

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“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. One of the things which Gertrude Butterwick had impressed on Monty Bodkin when he left for his holiday on the Riviera was that he must be sure to practise his French, and Gertrude’s word was law. So now, though he knew that it was going to make his nose tickle, he said:
‘Er, garçon.’
‘M’sieur?’
‘Er, garçon, esker-vous avez un spot de l’encre et une piece de papier—note papier, vous savez—et une envelope et une plume.’
The strain was too great. Monty relapsed into his native tongue.
‘I want to write a letter,’ he said. And having, like all lovers, rather a tendency to share his romance with the world, he would probably have added ‘to the sweetest girl on earth’, had not the waiter already bounded off like a retriever, to return a few moments later with the fixings.
‘V’la, sir! Zere you are, sir,’ said the waiter. He was engaged to a girl in Paris who had told him that when on the Riviera he must be sure to practise his English. ‘Eenk—pin—pipper—enveloppe—and a liddle bit of bloddin-pipper.’
‘Oh, merci,’ said Monty, well pleased at this efficiency. ‘Thanks. Right-ho.’
‘Right-ho, m’sieur,’ said the waiter.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Luck of the Bodkins

Quelle: The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”

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