Money for Nothing

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Money for Nothing (1928) is set in the village of Rudge-in-the-Vale. Lester Carmody, the miserly owner of Rudge Hall, and his neighbor Colonel Wyvern have quarreled, which threatens the romance between Carmody's nephew John and the colonel's daughter Pat. Meanwhile the con man Soapy Molloy, his wife, Dolly, and the American Chimp Twist, who runs a health clinic nearby, all scheme to make off with the Hall's valuables.

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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.”