The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany (Literary Miscellany), by N.T.P. Murphy
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Explores the life and works of Wodehouse, and examines how his wonderful creations were based on real places and people
P. G. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at school, and he went on to become a leading humor writer of 20th century. He created characters famous across the English-speaking world, such as Rupert Psmith, Stanley Ukridge, Uncle Fred, the inhabitants of the Drones Club, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, and Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress, all of whom remain as popular today as they were when they first appeared all those years ago. But behind all the brilliant metaphors that make us laugh out loud, there is a surprising background of reality. Wodehouse didn’t create his stories from scratch; he used real settings and exaggerated the characteristics of people he knew. With examples of Wodehouse’s unique imagery, this book follows the development and progress of his legendary characters, tells us where Wodehouse got his ideas from, and demonstrates why his admirers included Bertrand Russell, Berthold Brecht, George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, and the Kaiser.
The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany (Literary Miscellany), by N.T.P. Murphy- Amazon Sales Rank: #546558 in Books
- Brand: Murphy, N. T. P./ Fry, Stephen (FRW)
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x .60" w x 4.40" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
About the Author N. T. P. Murphy has published several books on P. G. Wodehouse, including two volumes of A Wodehouse Handbook, and he was the founding chairman of The P. G. Wodehouse Society (UK).
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Wodehouse DuJour By Gord Wilson If reading Wodehouse is the literary equivalent of Anatole's cuisine, then this book is like the menu Bertie Wooster might put together, imagining the delightful dining awaiting him when he gets out of chokey. It's not the dinner, but it certainly does make you hungry. And, I must at the outset issue a disclaimer. While the avid reader generally can expect the reviewer to shed some light on the thing being reviewed, here it is the reverse. If what is here laughably called a review makes no sense, you'll have to read this book first to understand it. A small price to pay to stagger through, one might say. On the other hand, you may consider yourself well out of it, not having to slog through this bally review at all. It is no crime, after all, not to have heard of or read any of Wodehouse. I mean, we all have to start somewhere, what? But if you had already started somewhere, would you want to shove in this book? Consider the pros and cons.Pros:1. When this book arrived, it turned out not to be, as I had feared, a slim volume of poetry bound in limp purple leather. Rather, it's a sturdy hardback with a slipcover of what I take to be green baize, in homage to the whirl of life behind the door of that selfsame hue.2. It's a rather smallish volume, which is all to the good, around five by seven American inches, a bit under 200 pages, sprinkled with jolly photographs and "images" which you'd think would be photographs, but no, are what Richard Usborne calls "nuggets"-- little verbal bits from the Wodehouse canon. Smaller than DeBrett's Peerage, you'll note, about the size of the Spinoza Jeeves peruses in his lair along with a beaker of port.3. The Foreword is by Stephen Fry, whom I was just watching in his role as Jeeves in the Matinee known as Jeeves and Wooster Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Series. You'd be a priceless ass, he says as much, to watch him on telly and never crack the cover of the books. I merely note that I was about to actually settle in with the good old paperback, not like those fellows who merely watch the shows.4. I have it on good authority that the author actually is N.T.P. Murphy, and not, say, Rosie Banks. As the founding chairman of the P.G.Wodehouse Society (UK), he knows the stuff to give the troops.5. The 23 chapters are blessedly short, just the sort of thing to dip into in a lawn chair with a b and s before tea time.6. If you wonder what a Wodehouse Menagerie would be (no wait, I confused that with Miscellany-- Menagerie is (are?) what is (are?) in the Wodehouse Bestiary edited by D.R. Benson, being a collection of stories about the Dumb Chums, as Plum affectionately referred to the assortment of snakes, Pekes, felines, and other fauna that people the tales . In this book, the featured Dumb Chums (Daft Mates?) are the Drones Club, who rate their own chapter, as do the light novels, as the one-offs are called (and which are some of my favorites of Plum), and all the other genres which form the Wodehouse canon.7. Lieutenant Colonel Murphy, to refer to him as Wodehouse might, shows us the real personnel and locales behind the stories, the effect of which is not unlike viewing the booth at the Eagle and Child pub (Bird and Baby) with the little plaque saying that C.S. Lewis and the Inklings met there.8. LTC Murphy says that PGW penned 98 books, but he published more, because the American titles were not the same as the UK ones, and the versions sometimes slightly varied, so that the number is over 100 (which is better press). Until now, the only way to find the dual titled ones was in Usborne's delightful Plum Sauce Plum Sauce: A P. G. Wodehouse Companion or the list in the equally enchanting, and thankfully slim, and drenched in photographs, and with many other good things to recommend it, P. G. Wodehouse (Thames and Hudson Literary Lives Series). But Murphy provides a simple, extensive list as the 19th chapter, along with lists of musicals, films, telly, websites (a sop to our disturbed, modern age), a timeline beginning with his juvenilia (first books, don't you know) to his finis (last books and knighthood in 1975). Also other miscellaneous bits (hence the title).9. is a nice number to end on.Cons: There aren't any cons.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is a great book for the true PGW fan By PianoGuyFromSC This is a great book for the true PGW fan. It has a short biographical sketch, a book and film list, and a distillation of Murphy's more in-depth writings about the books and characters of the Wodehouse canon. If you have read a lot about PGW before, there won't be much new here, but it's a fine source for the "gist" of his life and works. The price was also good in Kindle format. The author, N.T.P. Murphy, is a Wodehouse scholar and also a gentleman (we have corresponded about his 2-volume handbook). Only four stars because it contains little if any new information, and because it really is for the PGW lover, not the casual reader.
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