The Little Nugget (1913) is one of the novels in which Wodehouse found his feet, a light comic thriller set in an English prep school for the children of the nobility and gentry. Into their midst comes eleven-year-old Ogden Ford, the mouthy, overweight, chain-smoking son of an American millionaire. Ogden (whom we meet again in Piccadilly Jim) is the object of a kidnap attempt which forms the basis of the plot. The comedy arises from Wodehouse's favourite topics of Anglo-American misunderstanding and the absurdities of school life.
ISBN: | 9781841591414 |
Publication date: | 1st September 2005 |
Author: | P.G. Wodehouse |
Publisher: | Everyman's Library an imprint of Everyman |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 272 pages |
Series: | Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE |
Genres: |
Humour Non-Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |