# Is P.G Wodehouse popular in your country?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 3, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-p-g-wodehouse-popular-in-your-country/694705 "2014-08-03T11:54:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-p-g-wodehouse-popular-in-your-country/694705/81 "2014-08-05T19:46:23Z")

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> [@bldysabba](#):
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> In which, appropriately enough, Wodehouse mildly pokes fun at people who collect exotic things, rather like first editions of books 😉

They’re not all first editions. Some have been sneered at by competing book collectors as looking like they might be “Modern Dutch”. 😃

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**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-p-g-wodehouse-popular-in-your-country/694705/82 "2014-08-05T20:57:35Z")

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> [@bldysabba](#):
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> Damn. When I first read this post, I read it as Isaac Asimov _writing_ a story with Bertie Wooster in it. It set my head awhirl.

In one of his essays he mentions how just as writing from the point of view of an alien being doesn’t require one to be an alien, portraying Bertie Wooster as an "amiable simp " required not an amiable simp to write it but rather an author of genius.

(From the collection "Asimov on Science Fiction ")

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