Uneasy Money

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Lord Dawlish, a cheerful but penniless English peer, is the hero of Uneasy Money (1916). An eccentric American millionaire whom he once helped with his golf swing leaves Dawlish his fortune, cutting out his own niece and nephew. Feeling guilty, Dawlish travels to the United States to share the money with the niece, Elizabeth Boyd, who keeps bees on Long Island and refuses to accept a penny. Complications multiply as he falls in love with her.

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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.”