The Pothunters

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

P. G. Wodehouse's first novel, The Pothunters (1902), is a school story set at St. Austin's. Shortly before the school sports, the silver cups to be awarded are stolen from the pavilion, and suspicion falls on several boys. Tony Graham, Jimmy Silver and their friends try to clear their names and find the thief, amid boxing bouts, cricket and running battles with masters and prefects.

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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.”