The Head of Kay's

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

At Eckleton school, the house known as Kay's has a fussy, ineffective housemaster and almost no discipline. In The Head of Kay's (1905), P. G. Wodehouse sends Kennedy, a capable senior boy from another house, to take charge of it. Kennedy has to win over the rowdy juniors and face down resentful older boys, while his friend Fenn has his own quarrel with Kay. Sports, feuds and the cadet-corps camp fill out the term.

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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.”