Category: PG Wodehouse

The Sirs Have It

Hugh Laurie, Sir Edward Cazalet and Sir Stephen Fry by the Wodehouse memorial stone in Westminster Abbey on 14th February, the 50th anniversary of Wodehouse’s death.

Plum Podcasts

Fifty years ago today PG Wodehouse died in hospital in Long Island aged 93. The anniversary will not go unmarked.

Project Gutenberg

The oldest library in the world is thought to be the Library of Ashurbanipal in modern day Iraq. When it was founded in the 7th century BC it was in Assyria, a city-state in Mesopotamia. The oldest continuously working library may be the Al-Qarawiyyin library in Fez, Morocco, dating from 859 AD (a suspiciously precise… Continue reading Project Gutenberg

The Rain in Spain

Unfortunately flooding in Spain is not new. The rain in Spain turns dry ravines into dangerous raging torrents.

Plum Pudding

The P G Wodehouse Society (UK) celebrates his life and works – it may be the largest literary society in England with about 1,100 members in the UK and overseas.

Ptarmigan and Psillies

Earlier this year Penguin Random House (PRH) reprinted a couple of books by PG Wodehouse redacting some words in general use when the books were written but that have now become offensive to some people. Not to me, as it happens.