Wodehousian

• “But I think you have to think about this book as a kind of Wodehousian fantasy with a little bit of Mary Poppins squeezed in, because Connie Hargreaves is not unlike Mary Poppins.”

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• “Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration.”

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• “The Wodehousian language is there, I particularly enjoyed a section where Garnet refused to be sneered at by a chicken.”

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• “There are typically Wodehousian scrapes involving locked houses, tipped boats, and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.”

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• “I was trying to turn it into the Wodehousian "What Ho!”

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• “A prep-school master" writes Dexter, "blessed with the unlikely and rather Wodehousian name of Carrington Craxton, who had embarked on a disastrous chicken-farming venture in Devonshire”

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• “Psmith, Journalist is an unusual work in the Wodehousian canon, an odd bit of grittiness in American reality tales sandwiched between his early school stories and his later, more familiar Edwardian-age romantic comedies.”

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• “The scholar also pinpoints other specific individuals who may be the foundations of other classic Wodehousian characters such as Ukridge and Lord Emston.”

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• “This is detectable in his often unbefitting use of faux-Wodehousian analogy: "The woman at the mercado had dirty blond hair, like margarine full of crumbs.”

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• “If you love P.G. Wodehouse, you will enjoy Uncle Dynamite, for it is Wodehouse being Wodehousian.”

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