the code of the woosters by pg wodehouse

The plot turns on the protagonists' quest for the manuscript of Galahad Threepwood's scandalous memoirs, and the thwarted romance of Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown. Heavy Weather, among Wodehouse's greatest, is a kind of sequel to Summer Lightning, though it stands alone. In the course of one short summer night, Bertie suffers a succession of humiliations but manages to avoid getting engaged to the wrong girl. Thank You, Jeeves, the first full-length Jeeves novel, is constructed like a classical romance in which a couple (here Bertie Wooster and his manservant) quarrel, separate, and are reconciled. Throughout the inter-war period Wodehouse wrote a succession of novels, notably Thank You, Jeeves, Heavy Weather and The Code of the Woosters, which show him at his most inspired. With the Jeeves and Wooster stories that followed, his reputation was made. This was the novel, his 11th, that scored his first real hit with the public. When Crocker falls in love with the girl of his dreams, he decides he must reform his character - while at the same time impersonating himself to his beloved. Piccadilly Jim draws on Wodehouse's New York experience and features Jimmy Crocker, a full-time playboy and object of scandalised transatlantic gossip. After this country-house comedy came the transatlantic novel Piccadilly Jim, that exemplifies his skill at selling a version of Britain to America, and a version of the US to his English readers. The inevitable happy ending restores order to a momentarily disturbed landscape, and the prospect of nuptial bliss to several happy couples. Introducing the Emsworth family, the plot turns on Freddie Threepwood's engagement to Aline Peters - and the loss of a priceless Egyptian scarab. Wodehouse's comic debut, Something Fresh, appeared in 1915, during his third visit to America. Now, more than a generation after his death on St Valentine's Day 1975, we can begin to see his place in the canon as one of its greatest comic masters, a supreme stylist, with a kind of genius for light entertainment. Later, after the first world war, he would be universally recognised as a contemporary king of the magazine story. By his mid-20s, he had become a master of the serial novel for boys. As a young man he was an avid contributor to the hundreds of magazines that festooned Edwardian news stands. All his life, he never lost a taste for deadlines, or the promise of a cheque. Wodehouse began his literary career as a freelance journalist.

The code of the woosters by pg wodehouse