An edition of The Coming of Bill (1920)

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An edition of The Coming of Bill (1920)

The coming of Bill

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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 Ruth’s 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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Overlook Press
Language
English
Pages
319

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Coming of Bill
The Coming of Bill
November 14, 2006, BiblioBazaar
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Cover of: The coming of Bill
The coming of Bill
2005, Overlook Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Published in
Woodstock, NY
Series
Collector's Wodehouse

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6045.O53 C66 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
319 p. ;
Number of pages
319

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24965925M
Internet Archive
comingofbill00wode
ISBN 10
1585677442
ISBN 13
9781585677443
LCCN
2008271086
OCLC/WorldCat
68108333

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