The Code of the Woosters is among the most widely read Jeeves novels, and one of his best. All of which have introduced him to a new generation of readers, as well as reminding the rest of us why re-reading him is such a delight. There's been the BBC adaption of Blandings, the BBC4 biopic Wodehouse in Exile, Sebastian Faulks's Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, and the West End adaptation of the 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters. The last 12 months have seen him flourishing in the popular imagination to an extent perhaps unmatched since the height of his success in the 1930s. Whether the lost upper-class Edwardian world of Bertie Wooster and the Drones club, or the pastoral haven of Blandings Castle, his work conjures a timeless myth of quintessential Englishness. Few writers evoke the notion of 'comfort' like PG Wodehouse.
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