There seems no reason why the courtship of a wealthy bachelor like George Finch should not run sweetly to its natural conclusion. But George has fallen in love with Molly Waddington. And Mrs Waddington prefers the idea of an aristocrat to the reality of George, whom she suspects is half-witted.
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Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. -- Evelyn Waugh
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P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) grew up in England and came to the United States just before World War I, when he married an American. He wrote more than 90 books, and his works, translated into many languages, have won him worldwide acclaim.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb Wodehouse,
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This review is from: The Small Bachelor (Paperback)
Wodehouse captures an era that probably never was but many of us wish it had. He does one of his best jobs, capturing Twenties New York at a roar in this neatly done up farce. A true hoot, and you can't beat his use of language. Just like reading a screwball comedy, laughs come often and out loud! The Small Bachelor is not to be missed by any true afficionado of P.G. Wodehouse
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Unbeatable Wodehouse in great form,
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The Small Bachelor is the most funny non-Jeeves story I have ever read. I would give five times five stars If I could.
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Entertaining whilst not one of Wodehouse's best,
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This Wodehouse novel set in prohibition New York gives many a laugh and has the range of charachters which you would expect in his book - a bossy older woman and her hen pecked husband Sigsbee (a bit like Lord Elmsworth in Blandings though not as potty), an english Jeeves like Butler transplanted to america (Ferris), the usual romantic interest and, of course, theft, in this case theft of a worthless necklace. Just to give an insight into the lunacy at work in this novel, there is a hilarious exchange between Sigsbee and Molly (Sigsbee's daughter) where Molly tells him about her agreement to marry Finch:
"Well, anyway, we walked around for a while, looking at the animals, and suddenly he asked me to marry him outside the cage of the Siberian yak". "No sir exclaimed Sigsbee H with a sudden strange firmness, the indulgent father who for once in his life asserts himself. "When you get married, you'll get married in St Thomas's like any other nice girl". That made me laugh!
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Hamilton Beamish, New York, Officer Garroway, Lord Hunstanton, Madame Eulalie, Miss Waddington, Purple Chicken, East Gilead, Sigsbee Waddington, Seventy-Ninth Street, Molly Waddington, Washington Square, Frederick Mullett, United Beef, May Stubbs, Miss Stubbs, Sigsbee Horatio, Long Island, Town Gossip, Fanny Welch, Zane Grey, Brangmarley Hall, Central Park, John Porter, Police Headquarters New!
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Hamilton Beamish, New York, Officer Garroway, Lord Hunstanton, Madame Eulalie, Miss Waddington, Purple Chicken, East Gilead, Sigsbee Waddington, Seventy-Ninth Street, Molly Waddington, Washington Square, Frederick Mullett, United Beef, May Stubbs, Miss Stubbs, Sigsbee Horatio, Long Island, Town Gossip, Fanny Welch, Zane Grey, Brangmarley Hall, Central Park, John Porter, Police Headquarters New!
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- Lord Emsworth and Others by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Piccadilly Jim by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
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- The Novel Life of P.G. Wodehouse by Roderick Easdale on page 130, and page 133
- Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Money for Nothing by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Summer Moonshine by P. G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
- Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse in Front Matter
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