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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660745772d49176a • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. Madame Eulalie’s Rare Plums. Devoted to the early works of P. G. Wodehouse. The Globe (UK) The P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project is discovering long-neglected items by Wodehouse from the Globe newspaper itself; the Project Menu on this site presents these discoveries as they are identified and transcribed. In June 1908, Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook produced The Globe By The Way Book—A Literary Quick-Lunch for People Who Have Got Only Five Minutes to Spare, a compendium of illustrated humorous topical features designed as an impulse buy for the railway book trade. We present one of those features in full: Women, Wine and Song! is a playful, madcap pastiche of Victorian melodrama and the cliff-hanging adventure serials of P. G. Wodehouse’s youth. In addition, John Dawson’s article “Deconstructing The Globe By The Way Book ” provides further history of the book, excerpts, and annotations to many of its topical references. During Wodehouse’s work on the By the Way column, his contributions to the newspaper columns were unsigned, thus requiring the research efforts of the Globe Reclamation Project to uncover them. One signed article, “Abe,” from September 3, 1910, has just been found in newly available online scans of the paper; it gives his impressions of the New York literary agent to whom the manuscript of Love Among the Chickens was entrusted. The Globe, UK. Founded in 1803, the Globe was one London’s oldest evening papers. After a succession of owners over the years that eventually that saw the paper turn into a conservative organ, Sir George C. H. Armstrong took over in 1871 and edited the paper for some years. The jocular “By The Way” column started in 1881 and was conducted principally by E. Kay Robinson (?–1928) and then Charles Larcom Graves (1856–1944). After Armstrong’s death in 1907, the paper was sold to Hildebrand Harmsworth of the Harmsworth press dynasty. William Thomas Madge (1845–1927) became manager of the Globe in 1866 and served in that position through most of Wodehouse’s tenure. It was during his tenure that the pink newsprint since associated with the paper was started (1868). Completing the dramatis personæ at the Globe were Edward Harold Begbie (1871–1929) and William Beach Thomas (1868–1957). Begbie was an author/journalist who published nearly 50 books on a wide variety of topics including political satire, science fiction, plays, poetry, and children’s literature. He had joined the paper as Kay Robinson’s assistant editor on By The Way and assumed the editorship of the column when Robinson left. William Beach Thomas (1868–1957) was an educator and writer who had taught at Dulwich in 1897–98 and had been Wodehouse’s form master in the Upper Fourth in 1897. Having forsaken teaching for a career in writing, he began submitting contributions to Begbie, who hired him to become his assistant on the By The Way. Vis-à-vis his submissions to the Globe , Beach Thomas and Wodehouse were in touch—Wodehouse had written separately to him as well—and Beach Thomas was clearly impressed with what his former pupil had shown him. He agreed to keep him in mind on the occasional days a substitute was needed in the office to fill the column and suggested the possibility of a permanent job. ( John Dawson. ) The Globe By the Way Book by P.G. Wodehouse. The front covers feature a photograph of 21-year-old P. G. Wodehouse that was originally published in the September 1903 issue of The Captain. The photo has been restored and colorized by Laiz Kuczynski. The P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project announces the publication of P. G. Wodehouse in the Globe Newspaper, 1901–1908, Volumes 1 and 2. The books are the first results of a three-year effort by an international group of Wodehouse scholars to obtain and study Wodehouse’s daily “By the Way” columns, found to have contained thousands of short paragraphs and verses attributable to him. Unseen for over 100 years and scanned from microfilm in London and Los Angeles, the columns not only shed new light on an important, formative period of his career, but also many display “the brilliant craftsmanship and wit for which P. G. Wodehouse has always been known,” according to GRP founding member John Dawson. In 2011, Sir Edward Cazalet, Wodehouse’s grandson, permitted the group to obtain a copy of Wodehouse’s 114-year-old journal, “Money Received for Literary Work,” which lists the days and weeks he worked at the Globe . “Because the column was written in the morning and published in the evening,” Dawson said, “Wodehouse’s journal allowed us to identify the exact 1,378 issues we were looking for. From there, our volunteers in three countries built the archive and began an intensive 3-year effort to study, discuss, and evaluate the columns.” Volume One, By the Way, Day by Day , contains some 1,300 humorous paragraphs and poems, jokes, puns, and witty Wodehousean retellings of the days’ news events. In his introduction, Dawson, who selected and edited the columns for publication, describes the complex issues involved in attributing Wodehouse’s unsigned, yet often recognizable writing. He examines the column’s daily structure and how he was able to identify Wodehouse’s likely work by identifying unique stylistic characteristics, markers, keywords, and other criteria. Neil Midkiff has compiled comprehensive and entertaining notes to the text, which identify the now obscure Edwardian personalities and events Wodehouse wrote about. The result is a “wonderful daily romp through the best of Wodehouse’s By the Way columns.” Volume Two, By the Way: 200 Verses , features a sparkling trove of poems attributed to Wodehouse by an international panel of authors and experts. Edited by Tony Ring, the world’s leading authority on Wodehouse’s lyrics and poetry, the hilarious poems showcase his genius with the verse form, evident even in his early years. Ring’s commentary and learned notes provide the Edwardian perspective and bring the verses to life once again. In a remarkable introduction, Ring describes the intricate protocol used by the GRP’s five-member Poetry Review Panel to attribute the unsigned poems. By the Way: 200 Verses represents, by far, the largest body of Wodehouse’s delightful and innovative poetry ever to have been found. Norman Murphy, author of A Wodehouse Handbook and In Search of Blandings , writes: “When a team of researchers, all of whom know their Wodehouse and know precisely when Wodehouse was working at the Globe , undertake a slow, painstaking analysis of the column, then we should pay attention. And when they collectively can agree on when a paragraph has the indefinable unmistakable Wodehouse ‘touch,’ then I am confident we can accept their findings as conclusive.” Dawson: “The books are the result of hundreds of hours of study and research by the Wodehouse authorities and experts associated with the project. We’re confident our work will enhance the cherished legacy of P. G. Wodehouse.” The Trustees of the Wodehouse Literary Estate acknowledge “the significance of this important step towards understanding Wodehouse’s writing during his early years as a journalist.” Ordering: Priced at US$50 the set, the books can be ordered directly from Seattle Book Company (the distribution arm of our printers), and through Amazon.com. As of 27 September 2015, Amazon.com is now allowing international orders at reasonable shipping rates; Amazon.co.uk is not yet listing the books. Members of the USA and UK Wodehouse Societies will receive special promotional codes through their society journals for a 20% discount from the list price (discount only valid at Seattle Book Company). About Wodehouse. P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) is widely regarded as the foremost comic novelist of the twentieth century. His dozens of novels of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, the lovable, dotty Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, and a hilarious host of others have garnered millions of fans over the world and remain in print today. An acknowledged master of the short story as well, his 30 tales of love-struck golfers, as told by “The Oldest Member,” are considered by many to be the best examples of golf fiction ever written. Image at right: Studio photograph of Wodehouse, ca. 1903, by Florence Mason, colorized by Laiz Kuczynski. Also widely known for his Broadway musical theater collaborations with Jerome Kern, Wodehouse wrote literate song lyrics that were praised by Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and many others. The Kern/Wodehouse shows Miss Springtime (1916), Leave It to Jane (1917), Oh, Boy! (1917–18) and Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918) are considered to have revolutionized musical comedy, in no small part due to Wodehouse’s intelligent, witty lyrics.