Five years had gone since Peter Burns received a letter notifying him that his fiancée, Audrey Blake, had unexpectedly left him in the midst of their engagement. In the five years afterwards, Peter has devoted himself to a new life characterised by a fiery attitude of charity, painfully conscious that his old life had been such a selfish slurry as to drive Audrey away totally.
“Nature had given me the soul of a pig, and circumstances had conspired to carry on Nature’s work.”
In his newfound benevolence, he has (with the assistance of his new fiancée, Cynthia Drassilis) weaved himself into a complex web of American thieves, counterfeit British butlers, and a spoilt youngster with a price on his head—not to mention the reappearance of his previous fiancée.
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Sir Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English author and playwright and one of the premier humorists of the twentieth century. His inimitable prose, in the words of Evelyn Waugh, “has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” Wodehouse’s hundreds of written works include the masterful Jeeves & Wooster and Blandings Castle stories.