The Little Nugget

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**Title** **The Little Nugget**
Author	P. G. Wodehouse
Country	U.K., U.S.
Language	English
Genre(s)	Comedy, Romance
Publisher	Methuen & Co., London
Released	August 28, 1913

The Little Nugget is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on August 28, 1913 by Methuen & Co, London, and in the U.S. on February 10, 1914 by W.J. Watt and Co., New York. The story had previously appeared as a serial, in the UK in Captain magazine between January and March 1913, and in the U.S. in Munsey in August that year ; it would appear again, under the Little Nugget title, in the Philadelphia Record, in 1940.

The "Little Nugget" of the title is one Ogden Ford, a spoilt, unpleasant child of overindulgent, wealthy parents; he is so dubbed due to his immense ransom value, being a prime target for kidnappers. The novel, essentially a comic romance whose hero is called Peter Burns, revolves around numerous schemes to kidnap the boy, for various ends.

Ogden and his mother Nesta also appear in Piccadilly Jim (1918).