A Man of Means:
A Series of Six Stories
P. G. Wodehouse (and C.H. Bovill)
First published in 'The Pictorial Review' May-October 1916
Published as Project Gutenberg E Book #8713
The stories trace the rise and the subsequent adventures of Roland Bleke. He is a small time clerk to begin with, and then by sheer luck, becomes a man of means (with a fortune of about 250,000 pounds - a huge amount when as a clerk he made 140 pounds per year). Lottery tickets and unexpected gold strikes play a role in his ascent. Rather boring, excepting for the language, which, while not as great as vintage PGW, is still good. I suspect the storyline is Bovill's and the writing is PGW, though the latter could have done both, and good-naturedly could have just accommodated CHB out of charity.
A Series of Six Stories
P. G. Wodehouse (and C.H. Bovill)
First published in 'The Pictorial Review' May-October 1916
Published as Project Gutenberg E Book #8713
The stories trace the rise and the subsequent adventures of Roland Bleke. He is a small time clerk to begin with, and then by sheer luck, becomes a man of means (with a fortune of about 250,000 pounds - a huge amount when as a clerk he made 140 pounds per year). Lottery tickets and unexpected gold strikes play a role in his ascent. Rather boring, excepting for the language, which, while not as great as vintage PGW, is still good. I suspect the storyline is Bovill's and the writing is PGW, though the latter could have done both, and good-naturedly could have just accommodated CHB out of charity.
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