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In the latest censorious assault on English literature, PG Wodehouse’s celebrated comic ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ novels have reportedly been rewritten by publishers to remove “unacceptable” passages and prose.
Following the international row over the decision to issue censored copies of the children’s books of Roald Dahl to conform with modern woke sensibilities, it has emerged that the whimsical novels of English novelist PG Wodehouse have become the next target for failing to align with the politically correct code of current publishers.
According to a report from The Telegraph, several Wodehouse novels featuring the famed character ‘Jeeves’ — the “gentleman’s personal gentleman” character which inspired the Ask Jeeves search engine website (now Ask.com) — have had their prose changed or outright removed for new editions set to be published by Penguin Random House.
A trigger warning at the beginning of the 2023 edition of Thank You, Jeeves states: “Please be aware that this book was published in the 1930s and contains language, themes and characterisations which you may find outdated.
“In the present edition, we have sought to edit, minimally, words that we regard as unacceptable to present-day readers.”
