Wodehouse Miscellany

P.G. Wodehouse wrote sentences that twizzle like corkscrews and land with the precision of a Swiss watch. This collection gathers his finest short fiction, showcasing the man Ring Lardner called the greatest writer of English since Shakespeare. Here are tales of befuddled aristocrats, thwarted romances, manservants with plans within plans, and English country houses where chaos blooms like well-tended roses. Wodehouse's genius lies not in plot (though his plots are exquisite machines) but in the pure music of his prose, the impeccable comic timing of every clause, the way a single sentence can contain more joy than an entire bookshelf of serious novels. Reading Wodehouse is not entertainment. It is rescue from the ordinary.