Wodehouse took a modest attitude to his own works. In Over Seventy he wrote: "I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at." However, he also lightly taunted his critics, as in the introduction to Summer Lightning. "A certain critic-for such men, I regret to say, do exist-made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha; but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."
- ISBN10 1470905205
- ISBN13 9781470905200
- Publish Date 6 October 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English