P.G. Wodehouse A Biography

by Donaldson, Frances

• ISBN13: 9781853754241
• ISBN10: 1853754242
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group

Summary

There are not many characters in literature more famous or cherished than Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. They feature in nearly 100 tomes, which taken together, make their creator, Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse, among the most eminent and best-loved writers of comedy in the English language. But what of the man himself? Frances Donaldson, who first met Wodehouse in 1921, was given unique access to his most important private papers. From his blissful school days and his love affair with Hollywood to his time as a prisoner of war and his final years in America, Donaldson's definitive biography paints a luminous and affectionate portrait of the man known to his friends as "Plum."

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: The Master	1	(38)
Part I Almost a Lifetime
Childhood and Youth	39	(17)
The Early Years	56	(16)
Ukridge	72	(11)
Psmith	83	(10)
Marriage	93	(9)
Success	102	(13)
After the War	115	(25)
An Interlude	135	(5)
Hollywood	140	(9)
Income Tax	149	(22)
Part II The German Broadcasts
The Camp Note Book	171	(36)
The Broadcasts: Berlin	207	(24)
The Broadcasts: England	231	(21)
The Broadcasts: The Aftermath	252	(7)
The Cussen Report and Parliament	259	(15)
Paris	274	(21)
Part III America
New York	295	(18)
Remsenburg: Over Seventy	313	(19)
Remsenburg: Over Eighty	332	(15)
Finale	347	(36)
Appendices
A The Works of P.G. Wodehouse	355	(9)
i Books	355	(4)
ii Collections	359	(1)
iii Plays and Musical Comedies	360	(4)
B The Address of the Public Orator, Oxford University, in June 1939	364	(1)
C The manuscript version attached to the Cussen Report of Wodehouse's last four broadcasts from Germany	365	(14)
D Wodehouse's first broadcast from Germany as published in Encounter	379	(4)
Works about P.G. Wodehouse	383	(2)
Index	385