A Damsel in Distress

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

A Damsel in Distress (1919) begins in a London taxi, where George Bevan, an American composer of musical comedies, helps a young woman hide from a pursuer. She turns out to be Lady Maud Marsh, daughter of the Earl of Marshmoreton. Her family is keeping her at Belpher Castle to stop her seeing a man they consider unsuitable. George takes a cottage near the castle to court her, and the household staff start a sweepstake on her choice.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”