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More of a Wooster than a Jeeves Nigel Farndale wonders if P. G. Wodehouse wasn't a far simpler character than this admirable biography makes out

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040905
Author:Nigel Farndale

Wodehouse: A Life

by Robert McCrum

Viking, pounds 20, 530 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

APART FROM the time he was duped by the Nazis into broadcasting for them, P. G. Wodehouse led a defiantly boring life. According to his latest definitive biographer, Robert McCrum, he liked to smoke crumpled up cigars in his pipe, he worried about his Pekinese dogs being quarantined and, though all but asexual, he was devoted to Ethel, his wife of 60 years.

The creator of Psmith, Aunt Agatha and Gussie Fink-Nottle, moreover, did not sparkle in company; he kept all his comic brio for his ...

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