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WORKS BY OR ABOUT P. G. WODEHOUSE

Auden, W. H., ‘Balaam and His Ass’ and ‘Dingley Dell and the Fleet’, in The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays (New York: Random House Inc., 1962).

Bodenhausen, Reinhild von, P. G. Wodehouse: The Unknown Years (Sri Lanka: Stamford Lake, 2009).

Cazalet-Keir, Thelma (ed.), A Homage to P. G. Wodehouse (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1973).

Davis, Lee, Wodehouse and Bolton and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy (New York: J. H. Heineman, 1993).

Donaldson, Frances, P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1982).

Garrison, Daniel H., Who’s Who in Wodehouse (New York: Peter Lang, 1987).

Green, Benny, P. G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography (New York: Rutledge, 1981).

Hall, R. A., ‘The Transferred Epithet in P. G. Wodehouse’, Linguistic Enquiry, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1973, pp. 92–4.

Jasen, David, P. G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master (New York: Mason & Lipscomb, 1974).

McCrum, Robert, Wodehouse: A Life (London: Penguin Books, 2005).

McIlvaine, Eileen, James Heineman and Louise S. Sherby (eds.), P. G. Wodehouse: An Annotated Bibliography and Checklist (New York: James H. Heineman, 1990).

Medcalf, Stephen, ‘The Innocence of P. G. Wodehouse’ in The Modern English Novel: The Reader, the Writer and the Work, ed. Gabriel Josipovici (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1976, pp. 186–205).

Murphy, N. T. P., In Search of Blandings (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986).

——, The Wodehouse Handbook, 2 vols. (London: Popgood & Groolley, 2006).

Phelps, Barry, P. G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth (Constable: London, 1992).

Quinton, Anthony, From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein: Essays (Manchester: Carcanet, 1998).

Ring, Tony, You Simply Hit Them with an Axe: The Extraordinary True Story of the Tax Turmoils of P. G. Wodehouse (Maidenhead: Porpoise, 1995).

Sproat, Iain, Wodehouse at War (London: Milner and Co. 1981).

Taves, Brian, P. G. Wodehouse and Hollywood (McFarland & Co.: North Carolina, 2006).

Thompson, Kristen, Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes (New York: Heineman, 1992).

Usborne, Richard, Wodehouse at Work (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1961).

Wind, Herbert Warren, The World of P. G. Wodehouse (Praeger: New York, 1971).

Wodehouse, P. G., America, I Like You (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956).

——, Author! Author! (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962).

——, Hollywood Omnibus (London: Hutchinson, 1985).

——, Louder and Funnier (London: Vintage, 1997).

——, Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters, with a Foreword and Notes by W. Townend (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953).

——, P. G. Wodehouse: In His Own Words, eds. Barry Day and Tony Ring (Hutchinson: London, 2001).

——, The Uncollected Wodehouse, ed. David Jasen (New York: Seabury Press, 1976).

——, Wodehouse on Wodehouse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981).

——, Yours, Plum: The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse, ed. Frances Donaldson (London: Hutchinson, 1990).

See also Wooster Sauce, the quarterly journal of the P. G. Wodehouse Society (UK), and Plum Lines, the quarterly journal of the Wodehouse Society (USA). Given that Wodehouse’s works exist in numerous editions, unless otherwise stated, references to his texts are given by title and, where appropriate, chapter, rather than page number. A complete bibliography of Wodehouse’s works can be found on the P. G. Wodehouse Society (UK) website http://www.pgwodehousesociety.org.uk/.


OTHER WORKS

Auden, W. H., The Age of Anxiety (1947), repr. in Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (London: Faber, 2007).

Beevor, Anthony, and Artemis Cooper, Paris after the Liberation 1944–1949 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1995).

Crisswell, Colin, and Mike Watson, The Royal Hong Kong Police Force (London: Macmillan, 1982).

Flannery, Harry, Assignment to Berlin (London: Michael Joseph, 1942).

Fury, David A., Maureen O’Sullivan: No Average Jane (Minneapolis: The Artist’s Press, 2006).

Jackson, Julian, France: The Dark Years 1940–1944 (Oxford: OUP, 2001).

Jackson, Kate, George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880–1910 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001).

Lean, E. T., Voices in the Darkness: The Story of European Radio War (London: Secker & Warburg, 1943).

Leavis, Q. D., Fiction and the Reading Public (London: Chatto & Windus, 1932).

Lottman, Herbert R., The People’s Anger: Justice and Liberation in Post-War France (London: Hutchinson, 1986).

Moore, Lucy, Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties (London: Atlantic, 2008).

Moorhouse, Roger, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital (London: Bodley Head, 2010).

Reynolds, Paul, The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent (William Morrow & Co. Inc.: New York, 1972).

Rushdie, Salman, Imaginary Homelands (London: Granta, 1991).

Taylor, D. J., Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940 (London: Vintage, 2008).