Uneasy Money
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| Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | D. Appleton & Company |
Publication date | 1916 |
| Media type | |
Uneasy Money is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on March 17, 1916 by D. Appleton & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on October 4, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London.[1] The story had earlier been serialised in the U.S in the Saturday Evening Post from December 1915, and in the UK in the Strand Magazine starting December 1916. It was the second novel Wodehouse sold to George Horace Lorimer of the Post, after Something Fresh.[2]
The story doesn't include any of Wodehouse's regular characters or settings; instead it tells of amiable, kindly but hard-up Lord "Bill" Dawlish, golf lover, and his adventures in romance, golf and the theatre.
Plot
William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, is hard-up for money. When he is unexpectedly bequeathed a million pounds by an American he once helped at golf, and furthermore learns that the millionaire left his niece and nephew only twenty pounds, he is uneasy. He endeavours to approach them (in then-rural Long Island) and see if he can fix up something, like giving them half the inheritance. He discovers that it can be difficult to give money away...
Also features engagements being broken off and renewed anew, love, bee-keeping, and a monkey.
Adaptation
A silent, black-and-white film version was made in 1918.
References
- ↑ McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) P.G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist. New York: James H. Heineman, p. 29. ISBN 087008125X
- ↑ Robert McCrum (2004), Wodehouse: a life, W. W. Norton & Company, p. 120, ISBN 978-0-393-05159-9
External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with photos of book covers and a list of characters
- Free eBook of Uneasy Money at Project Gutenberg
Uneasy Money public domain audiobook at LibriVox- The 1918 movie at the IMDB