The Little Nugget (Collector's Wodehouse) [Hardcover]

P.G. Wodehouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2006 | Series: Collector's Wodehouse

The Little Nugget is one of the novels in which Wodehouse found his feet, a 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.

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"Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." EVELYN WAUGH. "He exhausts superlatives" STEPHEN FRY. "Pure word music" DOUGLAS ADAMS. "The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum" THE INDEPENDENT. "The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare" EVENING STANDARD. "A handsome, collectable hardback edition" Lynne Truss, THE TIMES" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The Little Nugget features the obese son of an American millionaire taking on the boys of an English public school.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Overlook Hardcover (April 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585677450
• ISBN-13: 978-1585677450
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,242,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An early gem!, August 5, 2000

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Bob Fillpot - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Little Nugget (Paperback)

This book, from early in Wodehouse's career, is wonderful. It starts a bit slow with some necessary setup info, but once it switches to first person about thirty pages in, it crackles right along to the end in P.G.'s funhouse style. Four separate kidnappers, a lost love, and a wealthy young man getting his first taste work all swirled together the Wodehouse way equals a sure cure for what ails ya.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bot a Wooster style story, but an enjoyable read, December 17, 2003

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Paul Donovan (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Little Nugget (Collected Works of P.G. Wodehouse) (Library Binding)

The Little Nugget was Agatha Christie's favourite Wodehouse - a choice Wodehouse himself was offended by (as he felt she was not keeping up to date with his latest works). The book contains traces of the "school" genre of writing (e.g "The Pothunters") with its school and setting and gangster involvement. There is also a romantic storyline - unlike the humorous romances of the Wodehouse's later works (the various struggles of the later Blandings books, or the Wooster romances) this has a slightly more serious tone to it - a reminder that Wodehouse wrote for Mills and Boon in his time. The humour, though undoubtedly something different from the polished Jeeves and Wooster dialogue is still very good, and the character of the "little Nugget" is well captured in all his repulsiveness. Indeed his reappearance in "Picadilly Jim" builds on this story - and shows Wodehouses recognition that this was a good comic character that could be developed further. Overall, those whose previous experience of Wodehouse has been Wooster or Lord Emsworth may find themselves a little shocked by the different tone here, but it is a good story with occasional flashes of inspiration in the dialogue. I would not agree with Agatha

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Makes It Different Makes It Good, December 10, 2006

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Nathan Knapp_Voronwë (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Little Nugget (Collected Works of P.G. Wodehouse) (Library Binding)

The Little Nugget was my first experience with PGW, and I've since gone on to read several more. More serious in its nature than any of the other Wodehouse's I've ever read, Nugget is still a hillarious story--if not more wistful in the romance section. Smooth Sam Fisher is possibly the most likable villain I have ever read--every section with him had me rolling. While this might not be the best place to start, this is still an excellent novel and a humorous, easy read.