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The first of the author's three autobiographical works to appear in the Everyman Wodehouse, Performing Flea was originally published in 1953. In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots. Characteristically modest and lightly humorous in tone, the letters are nevertheless revealing of a dedicated, practical and scrupulous craftsman whose most brilliant inspirations were grounded in decades of unremitting hard work.The letters are introduced and annotated by the editor, who provided Wodehouse with the idea for one of his most famous characters, Ukridge.… (altro)
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Introduction
It was only a few months ago - though I had been receiving them for more than thirty years - that the thought occurred to me that an amusing and instructive book could be made of these letters of P. G. Wodehouse, eliminating the purely private passages which would be unintelligible to anyone but myself.
It is usually difficult to decide at what point to begin a book, fiction or otherwise, but the problem here is settled by the fact that the letters I received from Plum between 1899 and 1920 have, with very few exceptions, been either lost or destroyed.
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Nobody who has not been in a prison camp can realize what letters, especially letters like those I received, mean to an internee.
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UK title 'Performing Flea', US title 'Author! Author!'
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The first of the author's three autobiographical works to appear in the Everyman Wodehouse, Performing Flea was originally published in 1953. In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots. Characteristically modest and lightly humorous in tone, the letters are nevertheless revealing of a dedicated, practical and scrupulous craftsman whose most brilliant inspirations were grounded in decades of unremitting hard work.The letters are introduced and annotated by the editor, who provided Wodehouse with the idea for one of his most famous characters, Ukridge.
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