P. Wodehouse

The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 7 October 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It was serialised in The Saturday Evening Post and (US and ) from 16 July to 3 September 1938 and in the London Daily Mail from 14 September to 6 October 1938. The Code of the Woosters is the third full-length novel to feature two of Wodehouse and 's best-known creations, Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. It introduces Sir Watkyn Bassett, the owner of a country house called Totleigh Towers where the story takes place, and his intimidating friend Roderick Spode. It is also a sequel to Right Ho, Jeeves, continuing the story of Bertie and 's newt-fancying friend Gussie Fink-Nottle and Gussie and 's droopy and overly sentimental fiancée, Madeline Bassett. Bertie and Jeeves return to Totleigh Towers in a later novel, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.

The Code of the Woosters

P. G. Wodehouse

“To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.”—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. When Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie Wooster help her dupe an antique dealer into selling her an 18th-century cow-creamer. Dahlia trumps Bertie's objections by threatening to sever his standing invitation to her house for lunch, an unthinkable prospect given Bertie's devotion to the cooking of her chef, Anatole. A web of complications grows as Bertie's pal Gussie Fink-Nottle asks for counseling in the matter of his impending marriage to Madeline Bassett. It seems Madeline isn't his only interest; Gussie also wants to study the effects of a full moon on the love life of newts. Added to the cast of eccentrics are Roderick Spode, leader of a fascist organization called the Saviors of Britain, who also wants that cow-creamer, and an unusual man of the cloth known as Rev. H. P. "Stinker" Pinker. As usual, butler Jeeves becomes a focal point for all the plots and ploys of these characters, and in the end only his cleverness can rescue Bertie from being arrested, lynched, and engaged by mistake!

Sonia Grgas

Looking to add fun to my reading I turned to Jeeves and Bertie - well done! Laughed out loud throughout. Recommended for those who enjoy capers and a bit of humorous British stiff upper lip.

Prashanth Srivatsa

Formulaic, familiar, but ever so tickling. Wodehouse's creations are a thing of joy, the situations they land in begging for our sympathy when we aren't busy chuckling like fools on a public transport. And despite the absence of my favourite nemesis, Glossop, there is ample in CotW for the pages to turn of their own accord, while you wait with biting nails for the next trick Jeeves will pull out of his sleeve.

The superior valet Jeeves helps extricate Bertie Wooster from the many undignified situations in which he finds himself thanks to his bumbling escapades and zany adventures. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Code Of The Woosters

Rick Dobrowolski

This is my favorite Wodehouse book so far. Jeeves & Bertie have been my favorite character team, but until now I've been used to reading about them in a short story format. In "The Code of the Woosters," Wodehouse spins a brilliant tale revolving around a cow-creamer of all things. Sit back and prepare to be entertained in a witty, engaging way, as Wodehouse crafts the English language in this superb story.

Trever

This is just barrels of fun. I'm definitely going to read more Wodehouse.

Maria Bono

A classic Bertie & Jeeves adventure! 

Bertie goes to visit Totleigh Towers with two missions: help Gussie with his engagement problems with the extremely self-centered Madeleine Basset and, perhaps most importantly, to steal an 18th century cow-creamer by demand of his “dear old flesh and blood”, Aunt Dahlia.

Problems will keep coming for Bertie once he arrives, but he’ll refuse to let any pal or old ancestor down, because the Woosters are not like that (and thankfully Jeeves will always be around with the best suggestions).

I had the book on my night stand for a few months, so I read it in between other novels. The beginning of the story felt very slow and repetitive. But then the dialogs in the last part of the book were so funny, it became hard to stop reading. Definitely one of my Wodehouse favourites just for the scenes with Aunt Dahlia.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Really liked it

P.G. Wodehouse

A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century. Purloining an antique cow creamer under the instruction of the indomitable Aunt Dahlia is the least of Bertie's tasks, for he has to play Cupid while feuding with Spode. 'A cavalcade of perfect joy.' - Caitlin Moran 'Sunlit perfection... Bask in its warmth and splendour.' - Stephen Fry 'The best English comic novelist of the century.' - Sebastian Faulks 'The greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness' - Julian Fellowes

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Melody Izard

The plot is over the top. It's the language that brings me back and back to these wonderful gems by Mr. Wodehouse. Stiffy and Stinker Pinker and Wooster and Aunt Abigail are just too precious and listening to the audio book made them ride around in my pocket. The cow creamer was not in said pocket.

Amit Gawande

This is the best Jeeves story I have read. Every time Wooster faced a challenge, I was involved enough that I could connect with and feel for him. His hurdles were realistic, his solutions not too simplistic. Not something one can say about every novel-length Jeeves story. 

I laughed out loud or sighed in satisfaction multiple times throughout the book. Brilliantly structured, narrated and voiced (I listened to the audiobook, read by Stephen Fry).

Monirah

Nothing quite like a novel by P.G. Wodehouse to get your upper-class English gentry fix, especially when Jeeves is in the picture to patch everything up in the cleverest of ways. 

Hilarity ensues in nearly every page as you meander around every surprising twist and turn in the story. Wodehouse has a knack for presenting harmless information at first that he then cleverly uses to keep the mystery of what is to happen next going. 

"'An odd thing, life, Jeeves.'
'Very odd, sir.'
'You never know where you are with it, do you?'"

Irem

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Mat Connor

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Laura Mauler

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

A Jeeves and Wooster novel When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffie Byng - and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shirts. It's a situation that only Jeeves can unravel.

The Code of the Woosters

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