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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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“Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time (1958)

“I remember when I was a kid at school having to learn a poem of sorts about a fellow named Pig-something--a sculptor he would have been, no doubt--who made a statue of a girl, and what should happen one morning but that the bally thing suddenly came to life. A pretty nasty shock for the chap, of course.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Galahad at Blandings

Galahad at Blandings (1965)

“I suppose this was really the moment for embarking upon an impassioned defence of Boko, stressing his admirable qualities. Not being able to think of any, however, I remained silent.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“Aunt Agatha is like an elephant—not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

Ukridge (1924)

“I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Young Men in Spats

Young Men in Spats (1936)

“The fellow with a face rather like a walnut.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“When news had reached me through well-informed channels that my Aunt Agatha for many years a widow, or derelict, as I believed it is called, was about to take another pop at matrimony, my first emotion, as was natural in the circumstances, had been a gentle pity for the unfortunate goop slated to step up the aisle with her - she, as you are aware, being my tough aunt, the one who eats broken bottles and conducts human sacrifices by the light of the full moon.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist (1915)

“I wouldn't have said off-hand that I had a subconscious mind, but I suppose I must without knowing it, and no doubt it was there, sweating away diligently at the old stand, all the while the corporeal Wooster was getting his eight hours.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“There are girls, few perhaps but to be found if one searches carefully, who when their advice is ignored and disaster ensues, do not say "I told you so."”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

Mavis was not of their number.
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972)

“This done, he felt a little—not much, but a little—better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning (1929)

“Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not--being, in point of fact, Jeeves.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas (1936)

“I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“The stationmaster’s whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Dynamite (1948)

“It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Ring for Jeeves

Ring for Jeeves (1953)

“Whenever I meet Ukridge’s Aunt Julia I have the same curious illusion of having just committed some particularly unsavoury crime and—what is more—of having done it with swollen hands, enlarged feet, and trousers bagging at the knee on a morning when I had omitted to shave.”

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Ukridge (1924)

“Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end—not that I suppose one could do it—they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’
‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Young Men in Spats

Young Men in Spats (1936)

“A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch A Pelican at Blandings

A Pelican at Blandings (1969)

“You know your Shelley, Bertie!’
‘Oh, am I?”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

“She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

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