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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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“His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.”

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Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)

“The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower-bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)

“I don’t say I’ve got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I’m perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don’t want people fooling about with it. ‘Leave it alone,’ I say. ‘Don’t touch it. I like it the way it is.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“Attila the Hun might have broken off his engagement to her, but nobody except Attila the Hun, and he only on one of his best mornings.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch A Few Quick Ones

A Few Quick Ones (1959)

“I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

“Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Spring Fever

Spring Fever (1948)

“Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch A Few Quick Ones

A Few Quick Ones (1959)

“It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)

“Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Girl on the Boat

The Girl on the Boat (1922)

“Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.”

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The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)

“The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch… The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Something Fresh

Something Fresh (1915)

“She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“[of a character in "The Man Who Gave Up Smoking" who is suffering from a hangover] … the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Mr Mulliner Speaking

Mr Mulliner Speaking (1929)

“I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Big Money

Big Money (1931)

“His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

“She laughed - a solo effort. Nothing in the prevailing circumstances made me feel like turning it into a duet.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Joy in the Morning

Joy in the Morning (1947)

“He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Adventures of Sally

The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Stinko, is he?’
'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

“My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“"Oh, look," she said. She was a confirmed Oh-looker. I had noticed this at Cannes, where she had drawn my attention in this manner on various occasions to such diverse objects as a French actress, a Provençal filling station, the sunset over the Estorels, Michael Arlen, a man selling coloured spectacles, the deep velvet blue of the Mediterranean, and the late mayor of New York in a striped one-piece bathing suit.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“I hadn't heard the door open, but the man was on the spot once more. My private belief, as I think I have mentioned before, is that Jeeves doesn't have to open doors. He's like one of those birds in India who bung their astral bodies about--the chaps, I mean, who having gone into thin air in Bombay, reassemble the parts and appear two minutes later in Calcutta. Only some such theory will account for the fact that he's not there one moment and is there the next. He just seems to float from Spot A to Spot B like some form of gas.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“I goggled. Her words did not appear to make sense. They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt who has been sitting out in the sun without a hat.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist (1915)

“Nannie Bruce, a tall, gangling light-heavyweight with a suggestion in her appearance of a private in the Grenadiers dressed up to play the title role in Charley’s Aunt, was one of those doggedly faithful retainers who adhere to almost all old families like barnacles to the hulls of ships…She was as much a fixture as the stone lions or the funny smell in the attic.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Cocktail Time

Cocktail Time (1958)

“Even at normal times Aunt Dahlia's map tended a little towards the crushed strawberry. But never had I seen it take on so pronounced a richness as now. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

“On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch The Mating Season

The Mating Season (1949)

“The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)

“For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Pigs Have Wings

Pigs Have Wings (1952)

“He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours -- the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.”

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P.G. Wodehouse buch Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)

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