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“... is no preface, foreword, introduction or blurb, and nothing about the compiler. After the title-page come three impacted pages of copyright acknowledgments and then we are plunged straight into Ability, Abnegation, Abnormality and Abortion. However, if one seeks out the hardback edition, published not long ago, and is lucky enough to find it still wearing ...”

“... for me. It was not about my passport. Oksana had been reading a second-hand edition of P.G. Wodehouse in English. The paperback was in her coat pocket at the time of the accident. The younger policeman, noticing the cover, mistook it for another of his favourites, Agatha Christie, and soon he and Oksana were talking happily about their ideal England, a ...”

“... her little dog has crawled up and licked her hand, as if he understood and sympathised.’ P.G. Wodehouse, Best-Seller At half past nine that evening Edwina’s body was brought to Broadlands. Commander North had asked the staff to come to the house if they wished; everyone was there, lined up, waiting. What were they to do? He fell back on naval ...”

“... ladies, vicars, nice little girls – the victims of Agatha Christie’s murders, the cast of P.G. Wodehouse. The mystery is that the series should have succeeded in so many countries, but never in America. William rapidly established himself, so firmly that Richmal’s loyal illustrator, Thomas Henry Fisher, was trusted to carry on the strip version for ...”

“... of a subject for a screenplay he plans to write. René’s subject presents itself on the opening page. In the course of Obama’s inauguration, ‘the enigmatic septuagenarian we came to know as Nero Julius Golden’ installs himself and his three adult sons in the Gardens’ biggest mansion. Nero is a man of vast and dubious wealth whom people find hard to ...”

“... bomb in Belfast,’ murmurs Mrs Baum in ‘The Worshippers’. When in the last Jeeves novel P.G. Wodehouse started dutifuly noting the sit-ins and demos he saw in the London streets, the effect was disastrous, even blasphemous. As Evelyn Waugh observed, Wodehouse wrote of an unfading, green world, a world that simply ...”

“... been lost, and most of us know no more of what went on than is to be found in the pages of P.G. Wodehouse. Meanwhile, Dewey’s conclusion is: ‘The most powerful motive that the 19th century knew worked in the Church of England’s favour. Not sex, not money, not even religious enthusiasm, but the desire for social acceptance. Snobbery was on the side of ...”

“... come next to Pubs, and Sex next to Shakespeare, both of which are appropriate neighbours. P.G. Wodehouse comes in often, which is also appropriate. This book gave me great entertainment as I worked steadily through it. I got a surprise when I reached T. There was my own name. Examining more carefully, I found I was the only historian in this compendium and ...”

“... eighty undigested nails in its body. Is this misapprehension now extinct? Not in the works of P.G. Wodehouse: ‘He gazed at the girl like an ostrich goggling at a brass doorknob.’ When the 19th century dawned, the Tower Menagerie had to compete with multiple attractions, for which Hahn finds the appropriate quotation in Wordsworth: albinos, painted ...”

“... to writers and artists – Goya, James Baldwin, Updike, Greene, George Eliot and, alas, P.G. Wodehouse. None of the essays is uninteresting and many of them have the virtues of the best kind of journalism – they tell you things you did not know and are unlikely to find out in more conventional quarters. Henry Kissinger is Hitchens’s pet loathing and ...”

“... would say: he can tell the exact figure by checking the sales of books by John Betjeman and P.G. Wodehouse, or by the turn-out for a West End revival of The Pirates of Penzance. And, out of town, there are still a few pockets of decency and calm; there are still a few country churches where the priest uses the word ‘God’ more often than the word ...”

“... flaw. Dr Fu Manchu also suffers from that ‘fatal excess of ingenuity’ discerned by P.G. Wodehouse in all his kind: as, for example, a tendency to employ a poisonous monster centipede on a long leash when a quick bullet would have done the job. In addition the Doctor has woman trouble, in the shape of a she-devil daughter, Fah Lo Suee, who seeks to ...”

“... a number of institutions; despite this, a surprising number still do not admit women members. P.G. Wodehouse is partly to blame for this bull-headed conservatism: his interwar accounts of the Drones Club were deliberately anachronistic, but so successful that his postwar fans expected their clubs to perpetuate his stereotypes.So, while on the whole avoiding ...”

“... dust behind thick lace curtains. When it comes to architecture Harris is of the same mind as P.G. Wodehouse, who said: ‘Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.’ After Pugin, she writes off Victorian buildings as ‘dim ...”

“... and pomposity, deliberate or not on Chaudhuri’s part, are in character: Ananda’s a fan of P.G. Wodehouse as well as Keats. When he eventually makes it out of the house Ananda goes to see his tutor, Nestor Davidson, an affectionate portrait of the late Dan Jacobson, who taught Chaudhuri at UCL. ‘It became evident very early that Mr Davidson and Ananda ...”