The Little Nugget is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on August 28, 1913 by Methuen & Co, London, and in the U.S. on February 10, 1914 by W.J. Watt and Co., New York. The story had previously appeared as a serial, in the UK in Captain magazine between January and March 1913, and in the U.S. in Munsey's Magazine in August that year ; it would appear again, under the Little Nugget title, in the Philadelphia Record, in 1940.
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The Little Nugget is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on August 28, 1913 by Methuen & Co, London, and in the U.S. on February 10, 1914 by W.J. Watt and Co., New York. The story had previously appeared as a serial, in the UK in Captain magazine between January and March 1913, and in the U.S. in Munsey's Magazine in August that year ; it would appear again, under the Little Nugget title, in the Philadelphia Record, in 1940.
The "Little Nugget" of the title is one Ogden Ford, a spoilt, unpleasant child of overindulgent, wealthy parents; he is so dubbed due to his immense ransom value, being a prime target for kidnappers. The novel revolves around numerous schemes to kidnap the boy, for various ends. It is essentially a comic romance, whose hero, Peter Burns, leaves behind a comfortable lifestyle to become a master at the boy's school, thanks to his scheming fiancee, and finds the change of lifestyle envigorating.
Ogden and his mother Nesta also appear in Piccadilly...
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