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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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„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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“A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.”

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Blandings Castle (1935)

“He’s engaged to be married to Stiffy Byng, and his long years of football should prove an excellent preparation for setting up house with her. The way I look at it is that when a fellow has had plug-uglies in cleated boots doing a Shuffle-off-to-Buffalo on his face Saturday after Saturday since he was a slip of a boy, he must get to fear nothing, not even marriage with a girl like Stiffy, who from early childhood has seldom let the sun go down without starting some loony enterprise calculated to bleach the hair of one and all.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes--the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Mere abuse is no criticism.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Quick Service

Quick Service (1940)

“If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

“He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time (1958)

“Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?'
'No.'
'Revolting. It alters one's whole conception of Man as Nature's last word.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.”

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The Heart of a Goof (1926)

“As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“As plainly as if it had been the top line on the oculist’s chart I could see what the future held for Bertram.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.”

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The Clicking Of Cuthbert (1922)

“Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found … what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas (1936)

“"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words "Elementary, my dear Watson" has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist (1915)

“It was a cold, disapproving gaze, such as a fastidious luncher who was not fond of caterpillars might have directed at one which he had discovered in his portion of salad…”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Sunset at Blandings

Sunset at Blandings (1977 (posthumously published))

“In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“It seemed to me, thinking quick, that the only way of solving the am-parce [impasse] was to sacrifice Shorty. Like Russian peasants with their children, you know, when they are pursued by wolves and it becomes imperative to lighten the sledge.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Spring Fever

Spring Fever (1948)

“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)

“You must remember, Father,’ said Mavis, in a voice which would have had an Eskimo slapping his ribs and calling for the steam-heat, ‘that this girl was probably very pretty. So many of these New York girls are. That would, of course, explain Frederick's behaviour.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Young Men in Spats

Young Men in Spats (1936)

“Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Summer Moonshine

Summer Moonshine (1938)

“I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Lord Emsworth and Others

Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)

“He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

“Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Carry On, Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves (1925)

“Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier)”

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P.G. Wodehouse

The Man Upstairs (1914)

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