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First published in US: March 17 1916 by D.Appleton and Company, New York
First published in UK: October 4 1917 by Methuen & Co., London
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 Russian translation
- Neudobnye den'gi by N. Trauberg: 2008
To inherit five million dollars it to inherit substantial sum.
For William, Lord Dawlish, it seemed the realization of his dreams. He could marry the girl he loved.
Of course, things are not quite so simple. The famous Wodehouse humour, which has no equal, sees
to that, in a transatlantic cocktail of breathtalking ingenuity.
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Characters
William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish — 23
year old penniless young man who loves golf. Secretary to
Brown's, an exclusive Club and is engaged to Claire.
Claire Fenwick — A touring company actress engaged to Lord
Dawlish
Mr. Ira Nutcombe — Old American millionaire who was helped
at golf by Lord Dawlish
Gates — A New York newspaperman friend of Lord Dawlish,
now stationed in London as his paper's correspondent
Gerald Nichols — Lord Dawlish's friend of the law firm Nichols,
Nichols, Nichols and Nichols
Percy Fenwick — Claire's 10 year old brother
Polly Davis — Claire's friend who married Lord Wetherby. An
American ex-actress living in New York doing a barefoot
dance at Riegelheimer's restaurant.
Algie Wetherby, Lord Wetherby — Poorest Earl in England who
is an amateur painter
Roscoe Sherriff — Polly's press agent
Clarence — Polly's snake
Eustace — Polly's monkey
Dudley Pickering — Millionaire automobile manufacturer,
middle-aged friend of Polly's who falls in love with Claire
Elizabeth Boyd — Heroine — Nutcombe's 21 year old niece who
loves Lord Dawlish and rented Flack's Farm in Brockport,
Long Island to raise bees
(Nutty) Claude Nutcombe Boyd — Elizabeth's brother
James — Elizabeth's cat
Daisy Leonard — One of Nutty's chorus-girl friends
Wrench — Polly's butler
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 Synopsis
Bill (Lord) Dawlish, twenty-four, is a good footballer, boxer and golfer,
has good health, many friends, a beautiful (though hard) fiancée, minor
actress Claire Fenwick, and no money except the £400 a year he gets as
secretary to exclusive Brown's Club. Claire refuses to marry him on £400 a
year. Then Bill hears he has been left a million pounds by an eccentric
American whose golfing slice he had cured. He also hears that the
eccentric's niece, Elizabeth Boyd, who farms bees on Long Island, had
expected to inherit the million pounds. Bill, without telling Claire, goes
to America (as Bill Chalmers) to see that Elizabeth gets at least half of
the inheritance. Claire, separately and unknown to Bill, also goes to
America, to stay with her ex-chorus-girl friend who is now a successful
barefoot dancer calling herself Lady Pauline Wetherby. Claire meets an
American millionaire on the boat and makes him propose to her, and she
accepts. Then, hearing of Bill's new wealth, she breaks with her American
and expects to be taken back by Bill. But Bill now is in love with
Elizabeth, though she refuses to marry him with no money of her own.
Well, the eccentric old millionaire had made a later will, and so...
This novel has the common early Wodehouse Anglo-American pattern, with
Anglo-American marriages. There is some untidy gun-play near the end and
Claire's millionaire accidentally shoots a pet monkey.
Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.
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