Times: "Thirty years ago today one of Britain's most prolific and funny writers died at the age of 93. And while the bores at the Romantic Novelists' Association have this week predictably nominated Pride and Prejudice as the greatest novel of all time, surely P. G. Wodehouse is long overdue recognition as one of our finest romantic treasures.
Throughout his work, love is the guiding force. You cannot move for men falling over each other in an attempt to woo. Characters such as Bingo Little or Gussie Fink-Nottle crumble helplessly under the power of woman after woman, whether they are simpering poppets such as Madeleine Bassett or the sporty Honoria Glossop with her laugh 'like cavalry charging over an iron bridge'."
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