description: 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.
language: English
title: The Little Nugget
titlecomplete: The Little Nugget
characters: Mennick, Glossop, Sam Fisher, Lefty, Reggie Broster, Elmer Ford, Buck MacGinnis, Smith, Augustus Beckford, Ogden Ford, Ted Beckford, Miss Benjafield, Audrey Blake, Cynthia Drassilis, Mrs. Elmer Ford, Parker, Peter Burns, Mrs. Drassilis, Arnold Abney, White, Tankerville Gifford, Lady Wroxham, William Stanborough, Mrs. Attwell
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1232
series: School Stories
publisher: The Overlook Press