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Wodehouse is only significant in the UK. Not so much outside the UK.
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Originally Posted by issybird
I love Wodehouse. Speak for yourself.
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Amen. A comic genius like Charlie Chaplin, and a master of wordplay.
Evelyn Waugh once said to him, "You are the master of my profession." And
of him, "One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes on each page."
And somebody else (I'm sorry, I can't remember who, I just at one time noted down the phrase from an article) wrote, "He is far from being a mere jokesmith: he is an authentic craftsman, a wit and humorist of the first water, the inventor of a prose style which is a kind of comic poetry."
And with all of the above I heartily concur.
<jumping off soapbox)