The Small Bachelor

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Manhattan is the setting of The Small Bachelor (1927), which P. G. Wodehouse adapted from his musical Oh, Lady! Lady!! George Finch, a shy young man with artistic ambitions but no talent, lives in a rooftop apartment and falls for Molly Waddington. Molly's stepmother wants her to marry someone grander, and George's courtship is complicated by a stolen necklace, a policeman with literary ambitions and Molly's eccentric father.

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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.”