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abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 02:33 PM Nov 2020

From BBC, Entertainment and Arts: "PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame

for the English author"...

P.G. Wodehouse is one of my favorite authors. This is an informative article with many photos.

From article: 'PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago - crammed with disapproving aunts in hats, eccentric aristocrats and wealthy young men about town getting into scrapes.

But he has countless fans around the world - not least in India, a country Wodehouse never set foot in.

snip

In fact Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) became an Indian favourite even as quite a young writer - though he never went there and he barely mentions India in 71 of his novels or in his many short stories. Yet he was read there avidly and his most popular books still sell in English-language bookshops.'

much more at link: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55043717

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse Enjoy!

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