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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20080106
Author:DAVID TWISTON-DAVIES

A Wodehouse Handbook:

The World and Words of

P. G. Wodehouse

BY N.P.T. MURPHY

POPGOOD & GROOLLEY, pounds 30 + pounds 6.50 p&p,

2 VOLS, 496 AND 584 pp

9 WINTON AVENUE, LONDON N11 2AS

The great myth about P.G. Wodehouse, until he died at 93 in 1975, was that his characters had only the vaguest connection with reality. They were solely the fruit of one man's fantasies, nurtured over decades while living abroad, it was claimed. 'Wodehousean' has come to imply a world of idle Etonians little touched by the Fall of Man, while 'Bertie Woosterish' is an insult employed by the Left against anyone ...

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