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Seriously Silly: P.G. Wodehouse and His World

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910203
Author:Michael Dirda

YOURS, PLUM

The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse

Edited by Frances Donaldson

James H. Heineman. 269 pp. $22.95

IN 1935 P.G. Wodehouse was 54 years old, already the author of over 50 books, and the lyricist for more than 40 musical comedies. He was shortly (in 1939) to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and to be acclaimed by Hilaire Belloc "the best living writer of English." Both George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, who agreed on virtually nothing else, admired him deeply; Waugh referred to him as the Master and spoke of Wodehouse with a reverence he otherwise reserved only for the ...

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