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How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion
How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion
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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Wodehouse, How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion.’
How Clarence Saved England is a parody of a particular genre of English novels of the time (William Le Queux, Arthur Conan Doyle, A.A. Milne, and H.G. Wells) which stoked British fears of foreign invasion. In the opening chapters, Wodehouse’s main character, Clarence Chugwater, is shocked at the complacency of his family in the face of their nation’s invasion. The author uses his typically rich descriptions of the family setting to mock the alarmism of his contemporaries. When one reads How Clarence Saved England with an understanding of its historical and literary context it becomes just as witty and mirthful as Wodehouse’s other works.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, humorous verses, poems, song lyrics, and magazine articles. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. A quintessential Englishman, born during the Victorian era and spending his twenties in Edwardian London, he also resided in France and the United States for extended periods during his long life. His writing reflects this varied background, with stories set in England, France, and the United States, particularly New York City and Hollywood.
Perhaps best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Kern’s Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg’s music for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
How Clarence Saved England is a parody of a particular genre of English novels of the time (William Le Queux, Arthur Conan Doyle, A.A. Milne, and H.G. Wells) which stoked British fears of foreign invasion. In the opening chapters, Wodehouse’s main character, Clarence Chugwater, is shocked at the complacency of his family in the face of their nation’s invasion. The author uses his typically rich descriptions of the family setting to mock the alarmism of his contemporaries. When one reads How Clarence Saved England with an understanding of its historical and literary context it becomes just as witty and mirthful as Wodehouse’s other works.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, humorous verses, poems, song lyrics, and magazine articles. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. A quintessential Englishman, born during the Victorian era and spending his twenties in Edwardian London, he also resided in France and the United States for extended periods during his long life. His writing reflects this varied background, with stories set in England, France, and the United States, particularly New York City and Hollywood.
Perhaps best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song “Bill” in Kern’s Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg’s music for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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