The Small Bachelor by P.G. Wodehouse - ISBN: 9781841591889
Hardcover
Idaho heir battles snobbery and chaos to win true love.

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2013

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Summary

A delicious comedy in Wodehouse’s lightest vein.

Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington who falls for him. Unfortunately, Molly’s snobbish stepmother, Mrs Sigsbee H. Waddington, New York society queen, has grander ideas for Molly, not least because George comes from Idaho, which is in every sense beyond the pale.

Based on a 1917 musical comedy script by Wodehouse and his friend, Guy Bolton, The Small Bachelor tells t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841591889
ISBN-10:1841591882
Author:P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:15 June 2013
Weight:397g
Dimensions:191mm x 136mm x 29mm
Series:Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE
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Critics Review

Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. * Evelyn Waugh *

About The Author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

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