The Continental breakfast, as a rule, consists of a pot of what the French smilingly call coffee, three smallish dabs of butter, a roll shaped like a roll, and another roll shaped like a horseshoe. There was a huge gap in my education: a gap the size of P. G. Wodehouse . Yes, the name 'Wodehouse' was vaguely familiar to me (although its correct pronunciation was not), and everyone has heard of Jeeves the butler, but for some reason I just hadn't actually picked up one of his books and read it. Until now. (And what made me do it now? The random fact that I was watching Fry's Planet Word , the BBC documentary series about language presented by Stephen Fry , in which he mentions Wodehouse as one of the greatest story-tellers and masters of language in literature. And since I have nothing but respect for Stephen Fry and his opinions, I had to find out for myself.) Hot Water is not even "a Jeeves novel", but I wanted to try reading Wodehouse in English (as...