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Who has not come to know and love the impeccable Jeeves and the inimitable Bertie? Together with Lord Emsworth, his prize sow the Empress of Blandings, Psmith, and a complete host of redoubtable Wooster aunts, they form a cast of characters, immortalized on the net and on screen, whose sharply observed antics are as popular now as when they first appeared in 1919. But what with their creator, Pelham Greville Wodehouse, whose 93 years produced a level of work "unsurpassed in the annals of literature"? Was he a really traitor to his country who broadcast dangerous propaganda from Germany through the war? And how can this be squared with the immensely lovable figure of "Plum" upon whom the Queen bestowed a knighthood in 1975? In researching this authorized, definitive biography, Frances Donaldson was given unique usage of Wodehouse's most important private papers, like the notebooks he kept through the sad bout of his internment through the Second World War. She also, for the first time, puts his beliefs, his writings, and his actions in to the full context of the others of his life. Lucidly and evocatively written, yet meticulously detailed, P.G. Wodehouse is a thought-provoking biography of an intriguing and widely misunderstood man. It is the benchmark of biographical writing against which recent literary biographies have had to be measured.

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