P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse (1904.)

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15. listopada 1881. – 14. veljače 1975.) bio je britanski humoristički pisac koji uživao velik uspjeh više od sedamdeset godina. Wodehouse se smatrao majstorom engleske proze, koga su cijenili suvremenici Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh i Rudyard Kipling ali i današnji pisci kao Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens i Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey ga je nazvao "buhom - izvošačem engleske književnosti", za koju je sam Wodehouse rekao da "misli da je kompliment", i koju je iskoristio kao naziv zbirke svojih pisama prijatelju Billu Townendu.

Danas je najpoznatiji kao autor priča i romana o Jeevesu i Blandings Castleu, ali je također bio nadaren dramatičar i libretist koji je napisao 15 drama i 250 tekstova pjesama korištenih u preko 30 muzičkih komedija. Surađivao je s Coleom Porterom na mjuziklu Anything Goes isto kao is Jeromeom Kernom i Guyem Bolton. Napisao je tekst za hit-pjesmu "Bill" u Show Boatu te surađivao s Rudolphom Frimlom u muzičkoj verziji Tri mušketira.

Vanjske poveznice

P G Wodehouse Society.org.uk - The P G Wodehouse Society (UK): events, Tony Ring's Information Sheets, quiz
Wodehouse.org - TWS, The Wodehouse Society (North America): events, links to essays
Other Wodehouse Societies (Australia, Belgium, Finland, India, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden)

A Celebration of P G Wodehouse - Annotated bibliography, characters index, text annotations
P G Wodehouse Books.com - Guide to PG Wodehouse: bibliography, history, articles, films/TV, quotes
Blandings.org.uk - Aimed at younger and non-UK readers: annotations, bibliographies, plots, characters, gazetteer
Wodehouse-Bible.com - Biblia Wodehousiana: biblical quotations and allusions inventory
"Zeroing in on Blandings" by Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 4.9. 2003. - Blandings Castle located?

"In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse" by George Orwell, 1945 - Defending PGW accused of treason
"Why A.A. had it in for P.G." by John Simpson, The Daily Telegraph, 31 August 1996. - Winnie-the-Pooh creator AAM vs. PGW
"What ho! My hero, PG Wodehouse" by Stephen Fry (Jeeves actor), The Independent, 18 January 2000. - Recollections and appreciation
"P. G. Wodehouse interview" by Gerald Clarke, The Paris Review, Winter 1975 (PDF format, 39.5 MB)
PGW's ancestry - parents Henry Ernest Wodehouse and Eleanor Deane, links to ancestors (no PGW 2007.)

Djela P. G. Wodehouse na Projekt Gutenbergu - about 40 books in English 2007.
Works by P. G. Wodehouse at EveryAuthor.com - subset of Gutenberg (about 30 books) but broken by chapters and searchable
"Wodehouse Quotations" - searchable index of quotes from books and articles (OCR, some typos)
Free audiobook of Psmith in the City (1910) at LibriVox (5h 48min, Ogg-Vorbis or MP3 formats, 168 or 336 MB)
Free audiobook of Something New (1915) at LibriVox (7h 34min, Ogg-Vorbis or MP3 formats, 218 or 436 MB)
The Poems of P G "Plum" Wodehouse - About 40 PGW poems
Transcripts of the five controversial Berlin broadcasts

Wodehouse-related discussion groups (book of the month, TV series, etc.) at Yahoo! Groups - Blandings (420+ members), WodehouseIndia (220+ members), TheDrones (140+ members), etc. 2007.