His amusing romances, such as
A Damsel in Distress (1919), his sentimental romances, such as
The Little Warrior (1920), and his pure comedies, such as
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934),
The Code of the Woosters (1938), and other books about Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, were best-sellers in England and America and translated into all the major languages and a few obscure ones. His short stories also had an immense audience.
Wodehouse's work for the theater was no less abundant and successful than his fiction. America, I Like You informs us, "I have also been author or part author of sixteen plays and twenty-two musical comedies." Wodehouse wrote original plays, alone or with others, including Brother Alfred (by Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook), first produced in 1913, and Her Cardboard Lover (by Wodehouse and Valerie Syngate), staged in 1927. He turned his own novels into plays; for example, A Gentleman of Leisure was produced in 1911, A Damsel in Distress in 1928. He adapted the work of Continental playwrights, including The Play's the Thing (1926) from Ferenc Molnar and Candle-Light (1929) from Siegfried Geyer.
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