[yK2VgoEI]

Re Wodehouse: Uncle Dynamite:
Poor Constable Potter was at the reciving end of this: "You thought I was Major Barbazon-Plank! no, I said Barbazon-Plank, the Major, to distinguish myself from my illustrious brother Barbazon-Plank, the Minor. And by curious coincidence, he joined the army and reached the exalted rank of a Major, thus becoming Major Barbazon-Plank, the Minor. And I went to Africa and did some prospecting and ended up owning a few gold mines, thus becoming, Miner Barbazon-Plank, the Major." (para phrased, not an exact quote).

[iouiyyut]

The previous one was PGW quote

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Topic suggested by Ravi on Fri Aug 14 17:25:30 .


Since contemporary is anything after WWII, this topic covers anything before that time.

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They collided, and it proved that no two objects can be at the same point in space simultaneously

[Percocetti]

http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/Maugham/Human/index.html

Here is the complete electronic version of the book you asked for.

Happy reading.

[catarleriarly]

Ramji,
Meet your twin soul, as far as PGW goes , in me. Try this :
"The fascination of shooting as a sport wholly depends on whether you are on the right side or wrong side of the gun"
More :

1. ...fell into the washing machine and did as many revolutions per
minute as a small African republic....
2.Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent
of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully
resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with
a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
Rajesh

More when I have time!

[Mappaindy]

yeah, thats his first short story I think. My favourite is "On Human Bondage". the title itself deserves credit and none of the novel I have read describes unrequited love and intense obsessions with such passion. That novel sort of reminded me of myself

[Sleflanna]

Rajesh:

I just wrote back to you in another thread. I think this place is more suitable. PGW belongs in the classics- timeless.

Ramji

P.S. I just realized I had quoted the same lines in two places. Will come back with more later.

[ensuppono]

just finished reading 'the old curiosity shop' by CD.. while the story is extremely predictable and even quite cliched at times, the descriptions more than make up! especially descriptions of Quelp, the ultimate villain of all time.. i shall post some clips soon..

[DeilMikina]

Is there any site where I can read 'Of human Bondage' by Somerset Mau' full and free?

help please

[namaikaimvputka]

hi
whats happening in this page.... yuo are talking alone or is there anybody answering you... i got confused when i saw this page.
anyway,
i wanted to recommedn those visiting this page to read bronte's wuthering heights... donno whether it is amongs classics, but it's just brilliant. we would go to the heights along with the author. pearl s buck's gods men also provides good reading.

[farmarrl]

Bull: Try Jerome.K.Jerome's 'three men in a Boat'.This is a very humorous book. This book is available online at the following site.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
A lot of classics are available at this site.

James Thurber is another author whose short stories are very humorous. I have to mention here 'The secret life of Walter Mitty' (which i have been told has come out as a movie) and 'The day the bed fell on my dad'.
I was laughing in the middle of the night after reading this one and got scolded by my grandma 'pei madhiri rathiri enna sirippu vendi kidakkalai'

Regarding short stories one suggestion wld be to read the anthologies which come out and not soemthing like the complete short stories of so and so'. Because when you read the short stories collection you see a pattern in it and lose interest. I tried reading Somerset Maughm and lost interest towards the end of the book

Also try Mark Twain. He has written a book about the days when he was a pilot in the river missisippi (i hope i got the name right, it's been a long time since i read this one).

[broksaksaak]

Bull - I just love your sense of humour. Dikens and then Dicens. ))))

[GarryPaterson]

Ramji and Ramamoorthy sir,

Here I am again..but I am afraid I'll have to take
leave till March. Tomorrow, I'll try to sign off in style with more quotes..

I'll be looking forward to reviving this thread in March, if you choose to leave it dormant till then, that is. Please do continue the good work!
Here are some links on the net:9if you havent seen them ,that is)

http://mech.math.msu.su/~gmk/pgw.htm
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~siddarth/pgwodehouse.html
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~bhurkeal/wodehousians.html
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chandra/pgw.html
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chandra/plum.HTML
http://www.smart.net/~tak/wodehouse.html
http://www.smart.net/~tak/wodehouse.html
http://kekux1-stub.kek.jp/~marat/pgw.html
http://www.aiusa.com/satire/wodehouse.htm
http://www.newdream.net/~scully/toelw/wodehouse.htm

"Do you know,' said a thoughtful Bean,'I'll bet that if all the girls Freddie has loved and lost were placed end to end--not that I suppose one could do it--they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.'
'Further than that,' said the Egg. 'Some of them were pretty tall.' "

``Alf Todd,'' said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of
imagery, ``has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark
room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left
ear with a red-hot needle.''
_Ukridge_ (1924)


More can be found from the sites above.

Cheerio, then.
Raj

[DoctorBretonDen]

How can we leave Arthur Conan Doyle ? His character Sherlock Holmes has outlived his creator. I hare read and reread Sherlock Holmes saga.

[AnriXuinriZ]

Babu : SURE! Have you read "Liza of Lambeth"?

[Acalsenunse]

My favorite sample of Pg Wodehouse humor. I am not quoting the exact words.

" He went into the room and came back so fast he almost met himself coming out"

[feAilei1]

Just wondering how a book gets into the classic league . Does classic mean that it is difficult to comprehend? or that it has to age for some time ( Shakespeare/Ramayana?)

Does this apply to music as well?

Classic music (whether indian or western) is applicable to music that is complex and has stood the time test, - are these the main/only factors?

[fiettariaps]

Any PG Wodehouse lovers ?

Ramji

[Logaleta]

Bull: thanks for your response. You seem to be a very well read person.

I do like Somerset Maughm. I read his complete short stories when i was in my college. He has this habit of having a twist or punch in the last line. When you read so many of his stories, you see a pattern and began to expect things. This becomes boring after sometime.that is what i meant.

i have read a few saki during my college days for my non detailed text and O 'Henry.

Hoping to see/hear more from you in this thread