Wodehouse: A Life
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (712 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393051595 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 530 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wodehouse: A Life Makes for a Great Read Wodehouse: A Life is a prime example of why I love to read biographies. Biographies open my mind to what was happening in the lives and times of the person being written about. Wodehouse does that very well. I bought the book because I was curious about th. "Best Wodehouse biography ever done" according to R. L. Clark. Every Wodehouse fan is probably asking whether they need yet another biography of the master, after Benny Green, Joseph Connolly, David Jasen, Frances Donaldson, etc, and the answer is definitely YES, if the book is this one.Whether you're a Wodehouse devo. FSheridan said Poorly written, no new insights. I have read a number biographies of P.G. Wodehouse (those by David Jasen, Frances Donaldson, and Joseph Connolly, among others) and am a big fan of his work. This book adds NOTHING of value to existing biographies and has a smarmy tone that was, to me at l
All rights reserved. Wodehouse (1881–1975), British author McCrum (My Year Off), literary editor of the Observer, rightly identifies the crisis over the great, if naïve, English humorist's 1941 radio broadcasts from Germany (which led to accusations of his being a "Nazi stooge") as "the defining moment of Wodehouse's life." While the broadcasts and their aftermath get the most scrutiny, McCrum ably surveys a 75-year writing career that began in 1900 and ended only with Wodehouse's death at 93. McCrum is franker on this latter subject than previous biographers and also dispels a myth or two. not seen by PW. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Earl
The ill-judged broadcasts from Berlin, where Wodehouse was interned during World War II, produced a violent backlash in England and tarred him, unfairly, as a Nazi sympathizer. Robert McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life. Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le Carré, and Seamus Heaney. 16 pages of illustrations.. A rich, vivid, and affectionate portrait of the most brilliant comic writer of the twentieth century.To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal chara