This volume reprints two of Wodehouse’s earliest books which take the form of story sequences linked by a central character, a technique he used many times thereafter.
ISBN:
9781841591896
Author:
P.G. Wodehouse
Page:
208
Binding:
Hard cover
Publication date:
2013
Format:
Book
Publisher:
EVERYMAN
Language:
English
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Description
Delightful in themselves, they are interesting chiefly as windows on a great writer’s early evolution. In The Man of Means, he looks forward to Bertie Wooster and Ukridge, but also back to his Victorian models, in a fantastic tale of the little man struggling with fate. When a humble clerk comes into a fortune, he embarks on a series of misadventures which suggest that wealth is not necessarily an unmixed blessing. Here we see signs of the satirical writer Wodehouse might have become, and the spirit ofChaplin is not far away.