The Little Nugget (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Howitt, Samuel G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440052700 ISBN 13: 9781440052705

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2010

Synopsis

The Little Nugget I If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landa mark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which they had assigned to Mrs Elmer Ford. late of New York. they might well have felt a little aggrieved. Philosophers among them would possibly have meditated on the limitations of human effort~ for they had done their best for Mrs Ford. They had housed her well. They had fed her welt. They had caused inspired servants to anticipate her every need. Yet here she was. in the midst of all these aids to a contented mind, exhibiting a restlessness and impatience of her surroundings that would have been noticeable in a caged tigress or a prisoner of the Bastille. She paced the room. She sat down, picked up a novel. dropped it. and, rising. resumed her patrol. The clock striking, she compared it with her watch, which she had consulted two minutes before. She opened the locket that hung by

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About this title

From the Publisher:

The Little Nugget features the obese son of an American millionaire taking on the boys of an English public school.

About the Author:

P. G. Wodehouse (1881 1975) spent much of his life in Southampton, New York, but was born in England and educated in Surrey. He became an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books and twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1440052700
• ISBN 13: 9781440052705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230