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The Little Nugget: A British Humor Classic
The Little Nugget A British Humor Classic Author:P. G. Wodehouse The "Little Nugget" of the title is one Ogden Ford, a spoilt, unpleasant child of overindulgent, wealthy parents; he is so dubbed due to his immense ransom value, being a prime target for kidnappers. The novel revolves around numerous schemes to kidnap the boy, for various ends. It is essentially a comic romance, whose hero, Peter Burns, leaves ... more »behind a comfortable lifestyle to become a master at the boy's school, thanks to his scheming fiancée, and finds the change of lifestyle invigorating. "Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." EVELYN WAUGH. "He exhausts superlatives" STEPHEN FRY. "Pure word music" DOUGLAS ADAMS.« less