Dragging this back to the original thread- how widely read is PGW today? Does he still attract fresh batches of public school readers, or is his appeal limited to those who started reading him in the 90s or before and have fond memories of Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world?
This article, remember, was written in 2002. I remember Swapan-da once slicing apart Tharoor, saying that he was prouder of being President of the Wodehouse Society than of being Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. On a personal note- PGW was a personal favorite through much of school, but the only book of his on my current reading list is Wodehouse at the Wicket. That said, I still think I got all my Shakespeare quotes from PGW. Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: Deepa Mohan <apeedna...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+thewall=gmail....@lists.hserus.net Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 03:23:28 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] How the Woosters captured Delhi On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Shashi Tharoor on The Master. > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jul/20/classics.pgwodehouse\ > We will have to accept that there is a whole world of readers out there who do not know their Plums from their peaches. I feel that Plum's world is like another writer in Tamizh that I know of...his pen name is "Marina", and his plays deal with the leisurely world of the Brahmin community in Chennai, a community, like the members of the Drones Club, that no longer exists. Has anyone read "Marina"'s work? Deepa.
