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P. G. Wodehouse

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) , 1881-1975, English-American novelist and humorist. After a short period, first working at a bank and then writing for a London newspaper, he became a full-time fiction writer. For over 70 years Wodehouse entertained readers with his comic novels and stories set in an England that is forever Edwardian and featuring idiotic youths, feckless debutantes, redoubtable aunts, and stuffy businessmen. He was most famous for his many novels about Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves. The "Jeeves" novels include The Inimitable Jeeves ...

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