The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse (top novels to read TXT) ๐
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In this, his first novel, P. G. Wodehouse offers a glimpse into the insular world of an English public school scandalized by a recent burglary of its prized sports trophies (โpotsโ) from its cricket pavilion. At first an overzealous master unjustly accuses one of the schoolboys, who happens to be in need of cash to pay a gambling debt owed to his brother. But, thanks to a Scotland Yard inspector brought in especially for the case, the boy is cleared and his promising career among the elite is left intact.
Along the way, Wodehouse gives snapshots of the everyday lives of various boys: from dealing with the idiosyncrasies of fellow students, to collecting birdsโ eggs and sneaking a smoke in the nearby woods while avoiding capture by gamekeepers, to cranking out an underground magazine to raise needed funds. Through it all, the boys, along with their headmaster, handle things with wit and aplomb. Consistent with a worldview in which a man โshould be before anything else a sportsman,โ sporting contests figure prominently: a boy rises from the canvas to score an unexpected knockout, and another graciously accepts his last-second defeat at the finish line.
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Charteris took it round to him at the Babeโs house, together with a copy of the special number.
โBy Jove,โ said Jim. โThanks awfully. Do you know, Iโd absolutely forgotten all about The Glow Worm. I was to have written something for this number, wasnโt I?โ
And, considering the circumstances, that remark, as Charteris was at some pains to explain to him at the time, containedโ โwhen you came to analyse itโ โmore cynical immorality to the cubic foot than any other half dozen remarks he (Charteris) had ever heard in his life.
โIt passes out of the realm of the merely impudent,โ he said, with a happy recollection of a certain favourite author of his, โand soars into the boundless empyrean of pure cheek.โ
ColophonThe Pothunters
was published in 1902 by
P. G. Wodehouse.
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The cover page is adapted from
Banquet Piece with Mince Pie,
a painting completed in 1635 by
Willem Claesz Heda.
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