The Little Nugget edition by P G Wodehouse Religion Spirituality eBooks
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If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landmark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which they had assigned to Mrs Elmer Ford, late of New York, they might well have felt a little aggrieved. Philosophers among them would possibly have meditated on the limitations of human effort; for they had done their best for Mrs Ford. They had housed her well. They had fed her well. They had caused inspired servants to anticipate her every need. Yet here she was, in the midst of all these aids to a contented mind, exhibiting a restlessness and impatience of her surroundings that would have been noticeable in a caged tigress or a prisoner of the Bastille. She paced the room. She sat down, picked up a novel, dropped it, and, rising, resumed her patrol. The clock striking, she compared it with her watch, which she had consulted two minutes before. She opened the locket that hung by a gold chain from her neck, looked at its contents, and sighed. Finally, going quickly into the bedroom, she took from a suit-case a framed oil-painting, and returning with it to the sitting-room, placed it on a chair, and stepped back, gazing at it hungrily. Her large brown eyes, normally hard and imperious, were strangely softened. Her mouth quivered. 'Ogden!' she whispered. The picture which had inspired this exhibition of feeling would probably not have affected the casual spectator to quite the same degree. He would have seen merely a very faulty and amateurish portrait of a singularly repellent little boy of about eleven, who stared out from the canvas with an expression half stolid, half querulous; a bulgy, overfed little boy; a little boy who looked exactly what he was, the spoiled child of parents who had far more money than was good for them. As Mrs Ford gazed at the picture, and the picture stared back at her, the telephone bell rang. She ran to it eagerly. It was the office of the hotel, announcing a caller
The Little Nugget edition by P G Wodehouse Religion Spirituality eBooks
I love it. This 1913 book looks to me like a Wodehousian, novel-length retelling of O'Henry's 1910 short story The Ransom of Red Chief.This must have been produced before Wodehouse settled into his formula. It is different from the formulaic works. It is more of a serious adventure novel than the usual musical comedy without music that he usually produced. It isn't just different, it is also a very pleasant and satisfying read.
I recommend it.
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The Little Nugget edition by P G Wodehouse Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
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.
This is a delightful read, but the version seems to have quite a few typos- not anything much but enough to distract you and make it annoying once in awhile. That's the only reason I didn't give the version 5 stars.
this Is delightful romance and adventure at a boarding school. This is a fun book and has different Wodehouse characters.
However happy your mood, reading a Wodehouse book will turn it up a notch. The early Wodehouse novels are no exception. "The Little Nugget" is funny, exciting, and romantic. It doesn't have as many memorable lines as a Jeeves and Wooster story, but it's definitely worth reading and is very interesting to those of us who have already read and re-read "The Inimitable Jeeves."
Part of the fun of P. G. Wodehouse's stories is that even when you know where the characters will end up, it is usually by a path which is unpredictable. Unfortunately, that isn't true in the case of "The Little Nugget". While the story does have a few curves in it, compared to a typical Wodehouse it is a veritable straight line. The book is divided into two parts. The first is very short, and introduces the character of Ogden Ford, i.e. The Little Nugget, and his mother Nesta, as well as her associates which lead us to the narrator of the second part of the book, Peter Burns. Peter has been asked by his fiancée Cynthia (who works for Nesta Ford) to kidnap Ogden from the school in which his father has placed him, and deliver The Little Nugget to his mother.
While there are a few moments in the story, in general it just doesn't measure up to the other Wodehouse stories that I have read. In particular it pales compared to "Piccadilly Jim", which sees the return of Ogden and his mother, but in a different setting and with a much more entertaining plot full of twists and turns. In particular, this is not a good choice for someone unfamiliar with Wodehouse, as they would miss out on what a typical Wodehouse story is like.
This is an early Wodehouse book, first being published on August 28, 1913 by Methuen & Co. London. In the U.S., it was first published on February 10, 1914 by W. J. Watt and Company. This edition is part of The Collector's Wodehouse series published by Overlook Press in the U.S., and in the U.K. it is known as The Everyman Wodehouse series published by Everyman's Library. This title is not part of one of Wodehouse's series, although as mentioned before there are characters that appear in a later book.
When I first started this story, I thought I wasn't going to like it, but because it is by Wodehouse, I continued reading and fell in love with it. The trials and tribulations of falling in love in a unique setting with a happy ending. Another excellent read by P.G. Wodehouse.
This Wodehouse book that was so different from all of the many others by him which I've read. Each one of the main characters was so delightfully depicted I couldn't help rooting for them. The plot was straightforward and easy to follow. There were subtle and insightful commentaries on the foibles of our species. There was humor, drama, romance, and best of all, a happy ending. I would highly recommend this book to all Wodehouse fans. There was not a single part of it i didn't like.
I love it. This 1913 book looks to me like a Wodehousian, novel-length retelling of O'Henry's 1910 short story The Ransom of Red Chief.
This must have been produced before Wodehouse settled into his formula. It is different from the formulaic works. It is more of a serious adventure novel than the usual musical comedy without music that he usually produced. It isn't just different, it is also a very pleasant and satisfying read.
I recommend it.
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