read: Wodehouse, P.G. Leave It To Psmith. The second Blandings novel (after Something Fresh). Introduces the character of Psmith who, I suspect, is either similar to Wodehouse or to how Wodehouse would like to be, a younger version of the main character in Cocktail Time. Wodehouse is perhaps the greatest humor writer in the English language in the twentieth century, perhaps ever, with lighthearted but convoluted plots, many Biblical and classical allusions (in this volume to Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Charge of the Light Brigade, Macbeth, the Ten Commands, Glasgow and Glaswegians, Pilgrims Progress, Job, Richard III, dyspeptic lizards, Lucifer, Robert Browning, Dan McGrew, Marius at Carthage, toiled not, neither did I spin, more to be pitied than censured and more. Excellent.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:22:41 +0000
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