Philip Hensher

The music of the language

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  • THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE: SELECTED VOLUMES

    P.G. Wodehouse

    The Everyman Library, pp. 128

Wodehouse, all in all, is lasting astonishingly well. His world is dated, but then it was always dated; it is basically Edwardian, and went on, barely changed, into the 1960s and 1970s. But his appeal is not the period charm of a Diary of a Nobody or a Saki; it is much more alive than that.

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Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and the author of 11 novels including A Small Revolution in Germany.

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