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P.G. Wodehouse: In His Own Words

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20030702
Author:Park, Ed

P.G. WODEHOUSE: IN HIS OWN WORDS

By Barry Day and Tony Ring

Overlook, 300 pp., $19.95

Comments might not be literature, as Gertie Stein averred, but one might think twice before choosing that War and Peace thingummy over this delectable compendium of quotes from Bertie Wooster's creator. Evelyn Waugh dubbed Wodehouse a master who could "produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page," and this companion volume to Overlook's laudable reprint project ups even that charmed quota, assembling a breezy bio from books, letters, interviews, and musicals. On ...

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