The Code of the Woosters

The Code of the Woosters
by P. G. Wodehouse

The Code of the Woosters
List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $10.18
You Save: $9.77 (49%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $9.98 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 158567057X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover

Book Reviews of The Code of the Woosters

Book Review: "Never Let a Pal Down"
Summary: 5 Stars

All of the P.G. Wodehouse novels about Bertram ("Bertie") Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, are funny. Some are reasonably complicated in their plots. But none compare to this classic in the series.

From the beginning, Bertie is up against impossible odds. Sent by his Aunt Dahlia to sneer at a Cow Creamer, Bertie dangerously bumps into Sir Watkyn Bassett, the magistrate who once fined him five guineas for copping a policeman's helmet on Boat Race night, and Roderick Spode, Britain's aspiring fascist dictator. The only trouble in this encounter is that Bertie is clutching the Cow Creamer on the sidewalk after having tripped on a cat and falling through the front door, and Sir Watkyn recognizes him as a former criminal. Barely escaping arrest on the spot, Bertie returns home to find that Aunt Dahlia wants him to debark immediately for Totley Towers where Sir Watkyn has just taken the Cow Creamer he has purchased after pulling a ruse on Uncle Tom. When there, Bertie is to steal the Cow Creamer. At the same time, he receives urgent telegrams from his old pal, Gussie Fink-Nottle, to come to Totley Towers to save his engagement to Madeleine Bassett. Bertie feels like he is being sent into the jaws of death.

Jeeves immediately fetches up a plot to get Madeleine Bassett, to whom he has been affianced twice, to invite Bertie to her father's home. Upon arriving, Sir Watkyn and Roderick Spode immediately catch him holding the Cow Creamer. Sir Watkyn threatens years in jail, until Madeleine comes in to rescue him. But Sir Watkyn proceeds to assume that everything that goes wrong from then is due to Bertie. For once, Bertie is the innocent party. But he takes the rap anyway, because of the code of the Woosters, never let a pal down.

Never has anyone had a goofier set of pals. Gussie Fink-Nottle has developed spiritually so that he has less fear, but his method of achieving this soon puts him in peril. Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, Sir Watkyn's niece, has to be the goofiest acquaintance that Bertie has. She is a one-woman wrecking machine for creating havoc. Her fiance, another old pal of Bertie's, "Stinker" Pinker, the local curate, is only slightly better.

Just when you cannot see any way that Bertie can avoid gaol, Jeeves comes up with one brilliant plan after another. It's truly awe-inspiring as well as side-splittingly funny.

P.G. Wodehouse remarked that he preferred to write as though the subject were musical comedy, and he has certainly captured that mood here at its vibrant best. You'll be on the edge of your chair and trying to avoid falling on the floor laughing at the same time.

After you've followed more twists and turns than existed in the Labyrinth at Crete, consider how far you would go to save a pal . . . or to keep a secret . . . or to protect a loved one. What should the personal code be?

Be generous with your friends and to all humankind.

Summary of The Code of the Woosters

On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.

Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.

In The Code of the Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the "gentleman's gentleman" extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.

With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library.

Comic Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Comic Books
Plum Lucky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers) ImagePlum Lucky (Stephanie Plum: Between the Numbers)
by Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press; Published: 2008-01-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $0.01
Price in other shops: $17.95
Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 13) (Stephanie Plum Novels) ImageLean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 13) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
by Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press; Published: 2008-06-17; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: $8.99
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: 1,400 Headwords Three Men in a Boat ImageThe Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: 1,400 Headwords Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome, Tricia Hedge
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2000-08-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.95
Nine Kinds of Naked ImageNine Kinds of Naked
by Tony Vigorito
Mariner Books; Published: 2008-10-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.07
Price in other shops: $14.00
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime ImageThe Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
Penguin Audio; Published: 2006-08-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $12.07
Price in other shops: $39.95
The Late Mr. Shakespeare ImageThe Late Mr. Shakespeare
by Robert Nye
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2000-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.50
Price in other shops: $27.00
The Other Side of the Story: A Novel ImageThe Other Side of the Story: A Novel
by Marian Keyes
William Morrow Paperbacks; Published: 2006-04-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.72
Price in other shops: $14.99
Guards! Guards! ImageGuards! Guards!
by Terry Pratchett
HarperTorch; Published: 2001-07-31; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.74
Price in other shops: $7.99
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) ImageAngus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
by Louise Rennison
HarperTeen; Published: 2000-05-31; Library Binding; Book
Best price: $15.33
Price in other shops: $17.89
Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson ImageDancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by Louise Rennison
HarperTeen; Published: 2003-03-04; Library Binding; Book
Best price: $1.25
Price in other shops: $16.89
Similar Books and other products
Joy in the Morning ImageJoy in the Morning
by P. G. Wodehouse
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 2011-07-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.10
Price in other shops: $13.95
The Inimitable Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse) ImageThe Inimitable Jeeves (The Collector's Wodehouse)
by P.G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2007-05-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.87
Price in other shops: $19.95
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit ImageJeeves and the Feudal Spirit
by P. G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2002-01-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops: $19.95
Very Good, Jeeves! ImageVery Good, Jeeves!
by P.G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2006-04-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.42
Price in other shops: $19.95
Leave it to Psmith (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.) ImageLeave it to Psmith (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.)
by P.G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2003-07-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.33
Price in other shops: $19.95
The Mating Season ImageThe Mating Season
by P.G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2002-01-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.15
Price in other shops: $19.95
Thank You, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel) ImageThank You, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel)
by P. G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2003-04-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.76
Price in other shops: $19.95
Right, Ho Jeeves ImageRight, Ho Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
CreateSpace; Published: 2010-05-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.86
Price in other shops: $8.95
Carry On, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel) ImageCarry On, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel)
by P. G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2003-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.33
Price in other shops: $19.95
Joy in the Morning ImageJoy in the Morning
by P. G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover; Published: 2002-05-13; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.33
Price in other shops: $19.95
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories