The Code of the Woosters
  • Published: 3 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787461048
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Code of the Woosters

(Jeeves & Wooster)

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Paperback
3 Sep 2018
EBook
1 May 2010
Hardback
15 Mar 2000
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A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century.

'The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' The Times (five best British comic novels)

'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived [.] A book that's a sheer joy to read.' Independent (40 books to read before you die)

'To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.' Ben Schott

Number 15 in 100 Greatest Books of All Time list in Daily Telegraph

'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"'

'The mood will pass, sir.'

Aunt Dahlia has tasked Bertie with purloining an antique cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. In order to do so, Jeeves hatches a scheme whereby Bertie must charm the droopy and altogether unappealing Madeline and face the wrath of would-be dictator Roderick Spode. Though the prospect fills him with dread, when duty calls, Bertie will answer, for Aunt Dahlia will not be denied.

In a plot that swiftly becomes rife with mishaps, it is Jeeves who must extract his master from trouble. Again.

'To have one of his books in your hand is to possess, by way of a pill, that which can relieve anxiety, rageiness, or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour. Paper has rarely been put to better use than printing Wodehouse.' Caitlin Moran
  • Published: 3 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787461048
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

Also by P.G. Wodehouse

Nothing Serious
The Man Upstairs
Barmy in Wonderland
The Girl on the Boat
Sam the Sudden
Jolly Festive, Jeeves
Above Average at Games
See all

Praise for The Code of the Woosters

A sheer joy to read.

Yahoo: 40 best books to read before you die

The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.

The Times

It's illegal to put together any list of the funniest books in English without including Wodehouse. [His] incredibly delicate descriptive touch (for example, of a particularly burly character: "as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment") and sense of timing elevate a country house farce involving a policeman's hat, a cow-creamer and a would-be British fascist leader into something which glows with an effortless, sunny brilliance.

32 of the funniest books ever, Esquire

Quite possibly the funniest book the master of comedy ever wrote.

i paper (feel good books)

'Anything by PG Wodehouse' was a common response when asking around for people's comfort reads. It's very hard to pick just one, but this - with Roderick Spode, Aunt Dahlia and plenty of sneering at cow creamers - is fairly close to perfection.

Books to get through lockdown, Spectator

Sheer joy

Independent

A cavalcade of perfect joy

Caitlin Moran

Fairly close to perfection

Spectator, Books to get through lockdown

There are periods when I'm not up to the journey, when hope is too much to ask for and I am only fit for ... cowering under the covers with P.G. Wodehouse

Cathy Rentzenbrink

To have one of his books in your hand is to possess by way of a pill that can relieve anxiety, rageiness, or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour. Paper has rarely been put to better use than printing Wodehouse.

Caitlin Moran

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists. His world is perfect, his writing is perfect. What more is there to be said?

Susan Hill

P. G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit.

Christopher Hitchens

An incomparable and timeless genius.

Kate Mosse

P. G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive.

Olivia Williams

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply or with quite so much wit and affection.

Julian Fellowes

Wodehouse is a comic master.

David Walliams

For as long as I'm immersed in a P. G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day.

Marian Keyes

I'm a huge fan. Wodehouse writes proper jokes.

Jennifer Saunders

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.

Ben Schott

A sheer joy to read.

Yahoo: 40 best books to read before you die

The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.

The Times

It's illegal to put together any list of the funniest books in English without including Wodehouse. [His] incredibly delicate descriptive touch (for example, of a particularly burly character: "as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment") and sense of timing elevate a country house farce involving a policeman's hat, a cow-creamer and a would-be British fascist leader into something which glows with an effortless, sunny brilliance.

32 of the funniest books ever, Esquire

Quite possibly the funniest book the master of comedy ever wrote.

i paper (feel good books)

'Anything by PG Wodehouse' was a common response when asking around for people's comfort reads. It's very hard to pick just one, but this - with Roderick Spode, Aunt Dahlia and plenty of sneering at cow creamers - is fairly close to perfection.

Books to get through lockdown, Spectator