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Rum cove, really; P.G. Wodehouse.(Book Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20041120
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A GOOD test of almost any book is to ask whether one would not be better off reading a work by P.G. Wodehouse, and the answer, in this reviewer's opinion, is nearly always "Yes." Robert McCrum, however, has written a book that provokes the answer "Perhaps not." This is high praise indeed.

In many respects Wodehouse was a deeply ordinary man. Born, in 1881, into a "good" family of colonial administrators, he was brought up in England, largely under the auspices of nannies, relations and schoolmasters. Between the ages of three and 15, he saw his parents, who were doing their ...

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