An edition of The Coming of Bill
(1920)
The coming of Bill
by P. G. Wodehouse
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The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of social comment and light comedy. It concerns the offspring of Ruth, a spoilt heiress, and Kirk, an impecunious artist of perfect physique, brought together by Ruths aunt, a believer in eugenics. The young couple are eventually successful in retrieving their child and their marriage from the influence of overbearing Mrs Poter, but only after a series of comic mishaps in a book which features a galaxy of vintage Wodehouse characters, including the bossy aunt, a tetchy millionaire, a good-natured ex-boxer and an orotund English butler.
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Aunts, Fiction in English, Fiction, Parent and child, Classic Literature, Eugenics, Fiction, humorous, generalPlaces
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The Coming of Bill
January 30, 2006, Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
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The Coming of Bill (Large Print Edition)
November 14, 2006, BiblioBazaar
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The Coming Of Bill
October 12, 2005, 1st World Library - Literary Society
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The Coming Of Bill
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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The Coming Of Bill
September 30, 2004, 1st World Library
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The Coming of Bill: Library Edition
January 2000, Blackstone Audiobooks
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The Coming of Bill
February 1966, Hutchinson
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0257657150 9780257657158
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Book 1: A pawn of fate
Ruth states her intentions
The mates meet
Troubled waters
Wherein opposites agree
Breaking the news
Sufficient unto themselves
Suspense
The white hope is turned down
An interlude of peace
Stung to action
A climax
Book 2: Empty-handed
An unknown path
The misadventure of Steve
The widening gap
The real thing
The outcasts
Cutting the tangled knot
Steve to the rescue
At one in the morning
Accepting the gifts of the gods
Mr Penway on the grill
Dolls with souls
Pastures new
The Sixty-first Street cyclone
Mrs Porter's waterloo
The white-hope link.
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