Clarence Chugwater is t a Boy Scout for thing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in country cricket to tice that England have been invaded by the Germans. And the Russians. And the Chinese. Not to mention a boisterous band of Young Turks, a mad Mullah and a brace of North African pirates. The government has recently abolished the army so there is thing to be done about it anyway, except give a masterly display of polite indifference. But this would be to reckon without patriotic Clarence, Boy of Destiny, who alone is prepared to stand up to the foe, and who devises an urthodox plan to restore his country to freedom . . . Written as a satire on the popular Invasion literature of the period, The Swoop! is an amusing jeu d esprit in which the young Wodehouse gives full rein to his sense of the absurd. The Everyman edition reprints the 33 black and white drawings by C. Harrison that accompanied the original text, and also includes The Military Invasion of America, in which Clarence s story is humorously transplanted across the Atlantic.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Overlook Press
ISBN-10
1468308343
ISBN-13
9781468308341
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189622091
Product Key Features
Author
P G Wodehouse
Format
Hardback, Sewn,Cloth over Boards,With Dust Jacket
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Collector's Wodehouse
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations, Frontispiece
Author Biography
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.