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The Code of the Woosters
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A canonical Jeeves-and-Wooster novel: silver cow-creamers, fascist newt-fanciers, and sentences that don't waste a syllable. Graham reads Wodehouse for the prose itself — distracted, he says, by the perfection of it.
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“Wodehouse is so good that I get distracted by his perfection. Not a word wrong.”
Tweet from October 2014. Graham has said elsewhere that Wodehouse is one of his models for clean prose; this title is the canonical Jeeves novel for newcomers.
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