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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

“Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.”

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“Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.”

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“He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.”

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Quelle: The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

“It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch My Man Jeeves

Quelle: My Man Jeeves

“Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.”

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“In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Mating Season

Quelle: The Mating Season

“A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.”

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Quelle: The Most of P.G. Wodehouse

“Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch A Damsel in Distress

Quelle: A Damsel in Distress

“Don't blame me, Pongo,' said Lord Ickenham, 'if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can't compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle. My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)

“Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.”

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The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Pigs Have Wings

Pigs Have Wings (1952)

“When I was a child, I used to think that rabbits were gnomes, and that if I held my breath and stayed quite still, I should see the fairy queen.". Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“It was a harsh, rasping voice, in its timbre not unlike a sawmill.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas (1936)

“…his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.”

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The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

“Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“Jeeves," I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, "what the dickens is all this?”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.”

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The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)

“The light from the big window fell right on the picture. I took a good look at it. Then I shifted a bit nearer and took another look. Then I went back to where I had been at first, because it hadn't seemed quite so bad from there.
"Well?" said Corky, anxiously.
I hesitated a bit.
"Of course, old man, I only saw the kid once, and then only for a moment, but -- but it *was* an ugly sort of kid wasn't it, if I remember rightly?"
"As ugly as that?"
I looked again, and honesty compelled me to be frank.
"I don't see how it could have been, old chap."”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Carry On, Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

“He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange backyard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim (1918)

“We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

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