The Code of the Woosters
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First published in 1938, P. G. Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters finds Bertie Wooster in one of his most splendidly tangled predicaments, as a commission from his formidable Aunt Dahlia sends him to Totleigh Towers to acquire an antique silver cow-creamer. Complicating matters are the terrifying Roderick Spode, leader of a fascist organisation known as the Black Shorts, and a succession of romantic entanglements, social obligations and misunderstandings that threaten to overwhelm Bertie’s fragile composure. Fortunately, Jeeves, his imperturbable valet, possesses the intelligence, tact and resourcefulness necessary to restore order to a world perpetually on the brink of absurdity.
Widely regarded as one of Wodehouse’s finest comic novels, The Code of the Woosters displays his extraordinary command of timing, language and farcical plotting, transforming the manners and anxieties of the English upper classes into an elaborate comedy of errors. Bertie’s wonderfully inventive narration, with its peculiar idioms and unexpected turns of phrase, is perfectly balanced by Jeeves’s cool precision. Beneath the drawing-room comedy lies a gentle mockery of pomposity, authoritarianism and social pretension, making this a particularly satisfying entry in the enduring Jeeves and Wooster series.
From the book
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
— P. G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
On The Code of the Woosters
“It remains, even though it was written in 1938, very funny.”
— Edward L. Galligan, The Sewanee Review