Yeah, I’m a bit OCD with books and bookshelves, I’ll freely admit that. Almost all of those book’s are read, though they may not look it. I read in a manner that doesn’t break the spine, if I can. And they need to be by the same publisher if possible, and they have to be aligned on the shelf too. Good grief.
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Oh yes. Totally escapist.
I think PG Wodehouse wrote and directed a lot of successful New York musicals. He spent a lot of his time in America. He was very involved in theatre, and so his plots do reflect that, imo.
Yes, many of his books are really a collection of short stories. Short stories are not usually as popular as books, but he makes it work.
I think Jeeves and Bertie are his best known characters. There are lots of others, including the terrifying Aunt Agatha, and easy going Aunt Dahlia whose schemes are always landing Bertie in trouble -- and The Empress of Blandings, a very pampered (actual) pig.
That sounds like one of the omnibus compilations. A bit daunting. But books like 'The Clicking of Cuthbert' are composed of chapters which are more like indivudual short stories which are all related to one another and were issued by Wodehouse.
I wouldn’t say the Fry and Laurie series of Jeeves and Wooster failed miserably.
I remember a tv critic complaining that Jeeves told Wooster that a girl wasn’t good enough for him, and stating he would not have been that presumptuous in the books. In fact the line had been lifted almost verbatim from the book. I think some stories work best in different mediums, usually a tv series or film just cannot match the book but just occasionally a production does the original justice, such as Brett’s Holmes or Fry’s Jeeves. Of course such things are subjective and subject to personal opinion.
