Thursday, February 14, 2008

Today in Literature

From: Today in Literature - " daily calendar of engaging stories about literary history. Our articles and our daily newsletter are available by Personal Subscription and by Site License"

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On this day in 1975 P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse died, aged ninety-three. Given the hundred books and the three-dozen musicals, it seems reasonable to believe the account of Wodehouse's final moments which has him collapsing while trying to pick up the pen and papers his wife had thrown across his hospital room. On this day in 1946 George Orwell published "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse," in which he tries to rescue the author from his stickiest and most famous spot of trouble.

A very small sampling of "Plum's" enjoyable works,
which can be found at your local independent, new or used bookstore or by searching by author and/or title at Bookfinder or ADDALL.
Life With Jeeves: The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves!, and Right Ho, Jeeves
Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories
The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through

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