The Little Nugget (1913) is one of the novels in which Wodehouse found his feet, a light comic thriller set in an English prep school for the children of the nobility and gentry. Into their midst comes eleven-year-old Ogden Ford, the mouthy, overweight, chain-smoking son of an American millionaire. Ogden (whom we meet again in Piccadilly Jim) is the object of a kidnap attempt which forms the basis of the plot. The comedy arises from Wodehouse's favourite topics of Anglo-American misunderstanding and the absurdities of school life.
- ISBN10 1594625441
- ISBN13 9781594625442
- Publish Date 15 March 2007 (first published 1 August 1913)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Book Jungle
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 316
- Language English