 First UK edition | |
| Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Jeeves |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Herbert Jenkins (UK) Doubleday, Doran (US) |
Publication date | 7 October 1938 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 224 |
| OCLC | 59362846 |
| Preceded by | Right Ho, Jeeves |
| Followed by | Joy in the Morning |
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.[1] It was previously serialised in The Saturday Evening Post (US) from 16 July to 3 September 1938, illustrated by Wallace Morgan, and in the London Daily Mail from 14 September to 6 October 1938.[2]
The Code of the Woosters is the third full-length novel to feature 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's newt-fancying friend Gussie Fink-Nottle and Gussie's sentimental fiancée, Madeline Bassett.
Bertie and Jeeves return to Totleigh Towers in a later novel, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.
- ^ McIlvaine (1990), pp. 74–76, A60.
- ^ Nigel Cawthorne, A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster, Hachette UK, 2013, ch.4