Psmith

No doubt many of the later books, such as Summer Lightning, are light comedy rather than pure farce, but the occasional attempts at moral earnestness which can be found in Psmith, Journalist; The Little Nugget; The Coming of Bill, The Man with Two Left Feet and some of the school stories, no longer appear.

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse 1945

Psmith is similarly employed, though not from financial necessity.

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse 1945

I have only recently read the playscript of Leave it to Psmith, which is… interesting.

Blast From the Past: Psmith | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

The problem of differentiating oneself from all the other Smiths was probably best solved by P.G. Wodehouse, with his ‘Psmith’.

Link love: language (7) 2009

“Psmith” was a good solution which I had forgotten all about.

Link love: language (7) 2009

A Blake writer, Edwy Searles Brooks, tended to write in imitation of Wodehouse so when I ran out of Psmith and Jeeves I found something almost as good in Brooks (who, I discovered, was a near neighbour of mine as a boy).

Boing Boing 2009

But in the sense of handling the personality of Psmith from all angles, Leave It to Psmith is the strongest Psmith book.

Blast From the Past: Psmith | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

For the first time in the series, we see a Psmith who is not only vulnerable in the physical sense we saw that in Psmith, Journalist but also in the more intimate mindset sense.

Blast From the Past: Psmith | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

Sadistically, because Psmith is so resourceful, cunning, arguably insane, and brave, Wodehouse decides to throw him into the deep end with the sharks of the New York underworld.

Blast From the Past: Psmith | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010

Ridiculous; I think Psmith really went to my head.

In Life, Even the Little Things Are Complicated | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010