The Code of the Woosters
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This time it involves a silver cow creamer, a fascist with delusions of grandeur, a magistrate who once fined Bertie five pounds, and a positively terrifying fiancée situation — none of which Bertie asked for, and none of which he has the faintest idea how to resolve. Fortunately, Jeeves is there. He always is.
Set in the rolling English countryside at Totleigh Towers — a house Bertie has very good reasons to dread — The Code of the Woosters is Wodehouse at the absolute peak of his powers. The plot spins with the precision of a Swiss watch, the dialogue crackles on every page, and Bertie's narration remains one of the great comic voices in the English language: cheerfully oblivious, magnificently well-meaning, and perpetually in over his head.
First published in 1938, this is the third full novel in the Jeeves & Wooster series and widely considered one of the finest comic novels ever written in English. No knowledge of the previous books required — just a willingness to laugh.
Pick it up. You will not regret it for a single moment.
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About the author
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals including Punch and the Globe. He married in 1914. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and at one time had five musicals running simultaneously on Broadway. His time in Hollywood also provided much source material for fiction. At the age of 93, in the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue knighthood, only to die on St Valentine 's Day some 45 days later.
