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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England
P. G. Wodehouse
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The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies and features references to many well-known figures of the day, among them the politician Herbert Gladstone, novelist Edgar Wallace, actor-managers Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes, and boxer Bob Fitzsimmons. (excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies and features references to many well-known figures of the day, among them the politician Herbert Gladstone, novelist Edgar Wallace, actor-managers Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes, and boxer Bob Fitzsimmons. (excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Mr. H. G. Pelissier urged the public to look on the bright side. There was a sun still shining in the sky. Besides, who knew that some foreign marksman might not pot the censor?
Mr. Robert FitzSimmons offered to take on any of the invading generals, or all of them, and if he didn't beat them it would only be because the referee had a wife and seven small children and had asked him as a personal favour to let himself be knocked out. He had lost several fights that way.
The directors of the Crystal Palace wrote a circular letter to the shareholders, pointing out that there was a good time coming. With this addition to the public, the Palace stood a sporting chance of once more finding itself full.
Judge Willis asked: "What is an invasion?"
Signor Scotti cabled anxiously from America (prepaid): "Stands Scotland where it did?"
Mr. Lewis Waller wr. . . Read More
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Because I was working up at Scout camp, and because I knew about this story that P.G. Wodehouse had written about the boy who had saved England, who was a Boy Scout, I figured that this would be a great read for me. And it was. Silly, overarching, fun, ruthless in its parodies, The Swoop! was a blas
An English indolence so profound that invasion itself cannot shake it. Nine simultaneous invasions. This is the state of the British Empire. This is where the Boers got us fast. This is why the future’s dashed to nothing. We’d let the Jerry walk all over us if we gave him the chance. Little odds we
Well, this one aged badly, didn't it?! Some extremely racist and prejudiced remarks make for a very uncomfortable reading. Just skip this book and go read one about Jeeves or Blandings Castle, you'll be better off.
The only reason I'm giving it 2 stars is because of this paragraph:
"(...) The Superci
I love P.G. Wodehouse. Not only was he the funniest novelist of the 20th century, he was also one of the era’s greatest prose stylists. He did not, however, become one of the greats over night. He didn’t pop out of the box like Joseph Heller, John Kennedy Toole, or Harper Lee, and write a classic on
I think this may be the first Wodehouse book that is more interesting, than actually funny. Wodehouse is one of my all time favorite humorist, but this is not among my favorite Wodehouse books.
It's interesting as an example of a satire of the invasion genre that was quite popular around that time. T
"England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room."
The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England is a very funny and quick to read satire on the Invasion of England by not one or two invaders; but nine simultaneous invading