The Luck Stone

Wodehouse en pleine forme!!

A school story by PG Wodehouse, originally published as a serial.Genre, penny thriller.The plot is typical Wodehouse; it moves in a direct line from one artificially manufactured complication to another, with little intricacy; and it is melodramatic and hackneyed, with all the usual tropes; but the book is nonetheless entertaining. If Edgar Wallace wrote a Billy Bunter book, this would be it.Amazon has it in a beautiful Everyman library edition. The jacket, hard binding, paper, print, and illustrations are lovely and enhance the reading experience.

Not your usual Wodehouse. This reads like a boys own story. The famous five plus. Full of twists and turns and good characters.. A real page turner and testament to a bygone age at the same time. Splendidly written as usual but "deadly serious" I loved it.

This is a very early Wodehouse book, one of the first in his long career. The Luck Stone holds up pretty well despite its age. It's a typical adventure Boy's Story type of the early 1900s which could have used a little more of Wodehouse's famous sense of humor. Wodehouse wrote about 100 books or so and this one is worth having on the shelf next to the others.

This is an early offering by P G Wodehouse which was written to be issued in a magazine (aimed at boys) and predictably botkhthe target age group and the episodic nature are clear. However it is Wodehouse and, while these are "new" characters you clearly see some well known types (Uckridge, PSmith, & Mike to name only three. If like me you are a Wodehouse fan, & I suspect you are if you have read this, then the book is well worth the purchase price especially as, to my knowledge, this is the only format in which the text is available.