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Lädt ... Yours, Plum: The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse (1990)von P. G. Wodehouse, Frances Donaldson (Herausgeber)
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Intellectuals, and journalists looking for worms in the apple, find it hard to forgive Wodehouse for being so apparently sunny and straightforward. Surely there must be some dark secret somewhere? Reviews of his letters have contained such phrases as "something withheld" —"wears too fixed a smile" —"self-suppression everywhere." These seem to be symptoms of reviewers terror, a well-known complaint like athlete's foot, which hamstrings the reviewer s normal responses through the fear that he must have missed some quite obvious point all his colleagues will have picked up. It must be said that Wodehouse s books might be much more interesting if there were things lurking in the background —instead of the pulse beating its happy rhythm on and on, unconscious of history and society and change and all the rest of it. Or rather not unconscious. Frances Donaldson has done a superb job of editing and writing an informative and perceptive introduction. She arranges the letters under the heading of subject and recipient, which gives a much better and clearer impression than the usual chronological hodge-podge, and it is a method that might be commended to all compilers of literary correspondence.
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I read this with great enjoyment many years ago, since when it disappeared into the morass of a lifetime of detritus that I fondly call my home. Wishing to share some of my love of Wodehouse with my book club, I bought a second-hand copy and set myself to reread it some six-ish months ago.
There are indubitable gems to be had (Flo Ziegfeld and his barely one baby elephant leaps to mind), and it's good to get the real dope from the horse's mouth as it were rather than the fictionalised account to be found in Bring on the Girls (which I haven't read, but P.G. spills the beans here about the degree to which events that happened to other people were adopted therein for the sake of a good story), but there's a lot of fairly mundane stuff as well.
Really, my score is an average between the 4.5 I would have given it 20 years ago, on first reading, and the 3.5 I would give it today. ( )