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A comic social novel traces the disruptions that follow when a zealous, reform-minded aunt imposes her ideas on a niece and intervenes in romantic choices, provoking resistance from family and suitors. A street collision involving an artist catalyzes a series of humorous misunderstandings, rivalries and awkward reconciliations across two linked parts, as characters navigate pride, social pretension and shifting affections. The narrative balances light satire of contemporary manners and heredity-minded certainties with farcical incidents and humane gestures that gradually disentangle tangled relationships.

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Title: The Coming of Bill

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Release date: November 1, 2004 [eBook #6880]
Most recently updated: June 5, 2021

Language: English

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The Coming of Bill

by P. G. Wodehouse

1920


Contents

BOOK I
CHAPTER I. A Pawn of Fate
CHAPTER II. Ruth States Her Intentions
CHAPTER III. The Mates Meet
CHAPTER IV. Troubled Waters
CHAPTER V. Wherein Opposites Agree
CHAPTER VI. Breaking the News
CHAPTER VII. Sufficient Unto Themselves
CHAPTER VIII. Suspense
CHAPTER IX. The White Hope is Turned Down
CHAPTER X. An Interlude of Peace
CHAPTER XI. Stung to Action
CHAPTER XII. A Climax

BOOK II
CHAPTER I. Empty-handed
CHAPTER II. An Unknown Path
CHAPTER III. The Misadventure of Steve
CHAPTER IV. The Widening Gap
CHAPTER V. The Real Thing
CHAPTER VI. The Outcasts
CHAPTER VII. Cutting the Tangled Knot
CHAPTER VIII. Steve to the Rescue
CHAPTER IX. At One in the Morning
CHAPTER X. Accepting the Gifts of the Gods
CHAPTER XI. Mr. Penway on the Grill
CHAPTER XII. Dolls with Souls
CHAPTER XIII. Pastures New
CHAPTER XIV. The Sixty-First Street Cyclone
CHAPTER XV. Mrs. Porter’s Waterloo
CHAPTER XVI. The White-Hope Link