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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

The camp holds some 1,000 British civilians caught by the Nazis in the Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, on the high seas. Wodehouse is one of a group of 60 who share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Frau Helene Scheu-Riesz (pronounced Shoy-Reese) began her literary career in Vienna, age 18, with translations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She also wrote a novel, Der Revolutionär, which came out spang during the 1918 revolution, had quite a succès d'estime. The Scheu-Rieszes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Bundle | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Frau Scheu-Riesz came to the U. S. in 1936, began organizing the Island Workshop Press Cooperative last summer. It is composed of people who spend July and August "cooperating" on Ocracoke Island, N. C. One is a Cherokee Indian chief. An other is Blanche C. Weill, whose Through Children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Bundle | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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