Pg Wodehouse: Plum's Literary Heroes

Pg Wodehouse: Plum's Literary Heroes - Paperback

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Pg Wodehouse: Plum's Literary Heroes - Paperback

Pg Wodehouse: Plum's Literary Heroes - Paperback

by Paul Kent
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Book Overview

P.G. 'Plum' Wodehouse is the greatest humorous writer England produced in the 20th century.

The creator of Jeeves and Bertie, the Blandings saga, Ukridge, Mr Mulliner, Psmith and Uncle Fred, his output totalled almost 100 volumes of peerless comic invention. But where did all that material come from? Not just out of his head, no matter how large his hat size: in Wodehouse's case, much arrived courtesy of his voracious reading habits, everything from Shakespeare to W.S. Gilbert via the Bible, Tennyson, Sherlock Holmes, gung-ho schoolboy fiction, gory pulp thrillers, the gloopiest romances and literally hundreds of other writers - even T.S. Eliot. No other writer had a broader range of influences.

In his latest groundbreaking study, Paul Kent, author of the Pelham Grenville Wodehouse trilogy of literary biographies teases out Plum's literary roots, and how he expertly blended elements from all these writers and genres into the heady cocktail that keeps the world laughing over a hundred years on from when he first created it. It's an alternative history of English Literature that will also make you laugh out loud.

ISBN9781911673255
Author Paul Kent
PublisherTSB
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages330
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Paul Kent

PAUL KENT has trawled just about every word Wodehouse wrote to re-present his unique achievement for a 21st century audience. A longstanding committee member of the P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK), and received unprecedented access to the family archive. Kent began reading Wodehouse at the age of 12, and is now much older than that. He has published works on Montaigne, Voltaire and Shakespeare.

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