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Thread #125186   Message #2775740
Posted By: Mysha
28-Nov-09 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: P.G.Wodehouse slang query.
Subject: RE: BS: P.G.Wodehouse slang query.
Hi,

Another Psmith fan here. My parents and my grandparents had a a few of the butleresque books, but I never did more than just wonder about the titles.

Picked up "Psmith lost het op" second-hand in one of the many book-shops of Amsterdam. I occasionally picked up another Wodehouse since, and it's now a row of at least thirteen books (that's the count of the ones I can see from here). I don't know how many were published as Dutch pocket books, though, or for that matter, how many books he wrote in all. I've never read an English one, though, so some things may have been lost in translation. Eg. I can't recall any iris-ing.

This Compton Mackenzie, did he write books that the Monarch of the Glen TV-series was based on? I liked the series, but it had a bit of a "filter before use" quality, like there are little bits in it that don't belong there. I wonder what the books would be like.

Bye,
                                                                Mysha