![]() ![]() ![]() (‘Stinker’) Pinker, the eighteenth-century cow creamer, and the small brown leather-covered notebook.īertie is propelled to Totleigh Towers, lair of Sir Watkyn Bassett and his soupy daughter Madeline, where he must wade knee-deep in a stew of Aunts, amateur dictators, policemen’s helmets and silver cow-creamers –to say nothing of the dog Bartholomew.Īmong Wodehouse enthusiasts, devotion to The Code of the Woosters borders on the cultish. ![]() I allude to the sinister affair of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, old Pop Bassett, Stiffy Byng, the Rev. Little knowing, as I crossed that threshold, that in about two shakes of a duck’s tail I was to become involved in an imbroglio that would test the Wooster soul as it had seldom been tested before. Bertie’s respite is curtailed by a visit to his Aunt Dahlia. The story opens with Bertie sipping one of Jeeves’ famous hangover cures, the morning after a binge honouring Gussie Fink-Nottle. Its plot and characters are arguably Wodehouse’s best known. The Code of the Woosters frequently pops up in literary lists of ‘books you must read’. A classic it most certainly is, not just in the eyes of Wodehouse readers. Wodehouse in your 2016 Reading Challenge – as a 20th Century Classic. The Code of the Woosters was one of Stefan Nilsson’s suggestions for including a book by P.G. ![]()
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