Quick Service

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Joss Weatherby, a young artist, loses his job painting advertisements for a ham company at the start of Quick Service (1940). He follows the young woman he has fallen for to Claines Hall, an English country house. There he takes a job as a valet, and the household soon fills with schemes involving a valuable portrait and a set of rival engagements, with Joss trying to keep his real purpose hidden.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”