{"id":54,"date":"2007-08-31T20:11:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-08-31T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:11:45","slug":"starting-with-wodehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/starting-with-wodehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting with Wodehouse."},"content":{"rendered":"

So a friend\/reader asked me today where he might get started with the works of P.G. Wodehouse. Here’s what I wrote:<\/p>\n

Well, he has two primary series: Jeeves\/Wooster and Blandings. Jeeves\/Wooster is more famous, but I wouldn’t say it’s better, just different.<\/p>\n

There’s a three-in-one set called Life With Jeeves<\/a>\"\"<\/i> that’s a great place to start with those stories. It comprises two collections of short stories, plus one entire Jeeves novel. It’s how I got started on Wodehouse, and since seven years later, I’m still enjoying his stuff, I’d say that worked out.<\/p>\n

The first Blandings novel is Something Fresh<\/a>\"\"<\/i> and introduces the critical character, Lord Emsworth, who is something of a dingbat with an odd affection for his pig, the Empress. The book I mentioned in chat today, Galahad at Blandings<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, is much later in the series.<\/p>\n

And if you just want to read a standalone book that’s not part of a series, I’m particularly fond of The Small Bachelor<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, a really funny book with some of Wodehouse’s best characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So a friend\/reader asked me today where he might get started with the works of P.G. Wodehouse. Here’s what I wrote: Well, he has two primary series: Jeeves\/Wooster and Blandings. Jeeves\/Wooster is more famous, but I wouldn’t say it’s better, just different. There’s a three-in-one set called Life With Jeeves that’s a great place to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}