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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20041205
Author:Reviewed by Katherine A. Powers

One sign of P.G. Wodehouse's greatness is that he can be read with enjoyment for a number of different reasons. But loose his books upon the land in audio versions -- of which there are now countless - - and the situation takes a sharp turn for the rummy. The controlled anarchy of Wodehouse's prose and plot has often been vandalized by gleeful, unbuttoned narrators and players in turbo-charged, full- cast productions. We listen to these, and ice forms on our upper slopes, as Wodehouse might say. But there are narrators who preserve the decencies, and in these we rejoice.

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