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The Code of the Woosters

by P.G. Wodehouse (also rec’d by Nigella Lawson )

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Over the years, wise men and women seem to have more or less agreed that Wodehouse is unmatched as a writer of comic fiction. This book is where my love affair with Wodehouse began. In this tale, wealthy if intellectually negligible man-about-town Bertie Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves, retrieve a silver creamer in the shape of a cow. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? But I warn you, on no account should you drink milk while reading this novel in public. (You probably shouldn’t be drinking...

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"Over the years, wise men and women seem to have more or less agreed that Wodehouse is unmatched as a writer of comic fiction. This book is where my love affair with Wodehouse began. In this tale, wealthy if intellectually negligible man-about-town Bertie Wooster and his manservant, Jeeves, retrieve a silver creamer in the shape of a cow. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? But I warn you, on no account should you drink milk while reading this novel in public. (You probably shouldn’t be drinking..."
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