Recommended by many as a great intro to Wodehouse's work, this book is a classic example of English humor. Although Jeeves, Wodehouse's most famous creation, does not figure in the book, we have a close surrogate in the buttler Beech, but even more in the figure of Galahad Gully Treepwood , the brother of Lord Elmsworth, the pig-breeder and competitor of Baron Parslow. The plot is quite silly: two lesser British nobles are vying for the prize of the fattest pig, and when a few resourceful buttlers, siblings and servants get involved, along with a few romantic subplots, it becomes a chaos of miscommunication and misplanning.
The book uses lots of names in the beginning and it is somewhat difficult to follow all these British antiquated names, but by the middle of the book, one gets used to them. There is plenty of humor, but it is the British kind, tongue-in-cheek and dead-pan being ever-present. Overall an interesting book and a good introduction to Wodehouse's works, but a book about Jeeves would be a better way to get to know his opus.
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