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What the critics say

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him
- John Humphrys

For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day
- Marian Keyes

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already
- Lynne Truss

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists
- Susan Hill

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection
- Julian Fellowes

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit
- Christopher Hitchens

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language
- Ben Schott

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language
- Simon Brett

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
- Lindsey Davis

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
- Arabella Weir

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
- Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius
- Ben Elton