The Coming of Bill

  • Автор: Вудхаус Пелам Гренвилл
  • Издательство: Everyman
  • Год выпуска: 2005 *
  • Обложка: твердый переплёт, суперобложка
  • Серия: Everyman`s Library P. G. Wodehouse
4 421 руб.
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 the overbearing Mrs Porter, 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.