Wodehouse: A Life
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2014
- Author and editor Robert McCrumb discusses the life and works of P.G. Wodehouse, which he chronicled in detail in his biography Wodehouse: A Life.
Robert McCrum, now literary editor of London's Observer, was the editor-in-chief of the publishing firm Faber & Faber in London for nearly 20 years. He has written six highly acclaimed novels and is the co-author of the bestselling The Story of the English. McCrum lives in London.
Now that you’ve introduced him, can we get him on camera please
I am a huge Wodehouse fanatic, and am obsessed with his work. I read many of my favorites over and over again, and read virtually no one else but Plum. This was a very informative video or rather it would be for someone who had not dedicated the last fifteen years of their life to studying anything Plum. Still with all the time I have poured into his life and work, I was able to learn a thing or two here.
I had no idea of the existence of this book and will be purchasing a copy soon. Thanks for the upload, I hope it helps to bring Wodehouse back into the light his brilliant writings deserve.
I share your enthusiasm for Plum but don't restrict myself to his writings. The timelessness of his literature is quite amazing. It would be hard to not find a collection of his work in any self respecting bookstore. Oddly I don't find myself wishing his books were any more popular than they currently are. Somehow I like to think people like you and me are part of an exclusive club :)
+emad ali I even dream Wodehouse occasionally. I have read The code of the Woosters, Love among the chickens and Summer Lightning so many times I can recite some pages without the text in front of me
McCrumb's is a fine bio. Reading it now and enjoying. It explains why Plum doesn't write about parental relations much (ever?). Bertie Wooster, the best example, is an orphan heir of a large fortune, so his familial connections are with his aunts, something Plum knew. I love PGW's work. I never thought I'd be passionate about a writer. For example, I couldn't understand the enthusiasms of Stephen King fans (a writer who is as different from Wodehouse as an egg-timer is from a Swiss watch). With PGW, I came to understand it.
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Disgruntled more like
Well, of course full of wonderful stories, this gentleman is a painfully precise example of the traditional English... Indeed, he can make a funeral out of any good joke. He's nervous, illities, and once of course to appear, as do all English people, as infinitely clever, resourceful, and always a step or two ahead of his listener. Listener. Which he does, at the cost of alienating his audience, unfortunately. How unlike is admired hero!
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I always thought Wodehouse identified himself with Lord Emsworth. Fine example of his self deprecating humour.
McCrum, not McCrumb
The worst thing Bertie did. Perhaps cheating on his religious knowledge test in school.
Wodehouse was like Jane Austen not Shakespeare according to Robert.
Too bad he mumbles.
Terrible delivery of a nice lecture