The Little Nugget

The Little Nugget
First US edition
AuthorP. G. Wodehouse
LanguageEnglish
GenreComic novel
PublisherMethuen (UK),
Watt (US)
Publication date
28 August 1913 (UK)
10 February 1914 (US)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)

The Little Nugget is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in Munsey's Magazine in August 1913, before being published as a book in the UK on 28 August 1913 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US on 10 January 1914 by W. J. Watt & Co., New York. An earlier version of the story, without the love interest, had appeared as a serial in The Captain between January and March 1913 under the title The Eighteen-Carat Kid; this version was not published in the US until August 1980, when it appeared in a volume entitled The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories. The Little Nugget was reprinted in the Philadelphia Record on 12 May 1940.