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The Swoop, or How Clarence Saved England is a short comic novel by P G Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Alston Rivers, Ltd, London, on 16 April 1909. Its subtitle is A Tale of the Great Invasion. The original story was not published in the United States until 1979, four years after Wodehouse's death, when it was included in the collection The Swoop! and Other Stories. The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies - "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." 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. About the Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1811 - 1975) Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent

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Author

Wodehouse, P. G.

Publisher

Forgotten Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781775450863

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.28 / 5 (199 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14