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To: jbe who wrote (1532)	11/12/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I have been waiting for you to dip your toe in the water!And it is a good start, indeed. I think you should include Mann, though. And where is Yeats?.....I have had the Bulgakov book on a "read sometime" mental list. Perhaps your urging will turn the trick.....

To: jbe who wrote (1532)	11/12/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Nice start of a list. Can we add Proust and Faulkner?

To: jbe who wrote (1532)	11/13/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I'm tossing in a vote for P. G. Wodehouse whose light subject matter and charming style have enchanted people around the world. Underlying the apparent effortlessness of his prose was a serious mastery of the art of affectionate satire and absurd farce. P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) In full Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse English comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright, best known as the creator of such characters as Jeeves, the supreme "gentleman's gentleman" and Bertie Wooster of the Drones Club, a bumbling but likeable young bachelor aristocrat, Mr. Mulliner, and the absentminded Lord Emsworth of the Blandings Castle. Most of Wodehouse's works are parodies of life among the British aristocracy of the 1920s and 1930s. Wodehouse was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse, who worked as a British judge in Hong Kong, and Eleanor (Deane) Wodehouse. Until the age of four he lived in Hong Kong with his parents. Returning to England, he spent much of his childhood in the care of various aunts, and attended boarding schools. Wodehouse received his secondary education at Dulwich College, London, which he always remembered with affection. After graduting in 1900 he worked two years at a bank, and started his career as a free-lance writer, contributing humorous stories to the London Globe and Punch. Most of Wodehouse's stories appeared first serialized at the Saturday Evening Post. After 1909 he lived and worked long periods in the United States and in France. His early stories were mainly for schoolboys centering on a character known as Psmith. Following the World War I Wodehouse gained fame with the novel PICCADILLY JIM (1918), and in 1924 Wodehouse had his major breakthrough with the THE INIMITABLE JEEVES. Wodehouse invented Wooster and Jeeves in his early short stories, and the first novel centering on the characters, THANK YOU, JEEVES (1934) was immediately greeted as one of his very best. In addition to his humorous novels and stories, he collaborated with Guy Bolton in writing several popular Broadway musicals, notably SALLY (1920), SITTING PRETTY (1924), ANYTHING GOES (1934), and BRING ON THE GIRLS (1954). During World War II Wodehouse was captured by the Germans at Le Touquet, where he used to stay when not living in England. He was interned in Berlin, and unwisely made some broadcasts to America, humorous reflections on his experiences as an internee, but the mere fact that he had transmitted over German airwaves made him liable to charges of treason. Wodehouse was attacked in England, and he was not able to return to him home country for fear of prosecution. After the war Wodehouse settled in the United States. The England he depicted in fact bore little relation to the actual place, but evolved in his works into a land where time stood still. He bought a ten-acre estate on Long Island in 1952, becoming an American citizen in 1955. By this time English animosity towards him had dissipated, and Wodehouse was subsequently awarded a D.Litt. from Oxford University. Wodehouse wrote nearly 100 novels, about 30 plays and 20 screenplays. His first book, The Pothunters, a short story collection, was published 1902. The last, Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen appeared 1974. Wodehouse wrote also his memoirs PERFORMING FLEA (1951) and OVER SEVENTY (1957). He died in Long Island, on February 14, 1975.