A Man of Means

A Man of Means

"A Man of Means" is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories first appeared in the United Kingdom in the "Strand" in 1914, and in the United States in "Pictorial Review" in 1916. They were later published in book form in the UK by Porpoise Books in 1991; the collection was released on Project Gutenberg in 2003.

The stories all star Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes directly, and occasionally refer back to past events in Bleke's meteoric career.

Contents

* "The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter" ("The Landlady's Daughter")
** UK: "Strand", April 1914
** US: "Pictorial Review", May 1916
* "The Episode of the Financial Napoleon" ("The Bolt from the Blue")
** UK: "Strand", May 1914
** US: "Pictorial Review", June 1916
* "The Episode of the Theatrical Venture"
** UK: "Strand", June 1914
** US: "Pictorial Review", July 1916
* "The Episode of the Live Weekly"
** UK: "Strand", July 1914
** US: "Pictorial Review", August 1916
* "The Episode of the Exiled Monarch" ("The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch")
** UK: "Strand", August 1914
** US: "Pictorial Review", September 1916
* "The Episode of the Hired Past"
** UK: "Strand", September 1914
** US: "Pictorial Review", October 1916

See also

* Categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

External links

* [http://home.earthlink.net/~nmidkiff/pgw/story.html An alphabetical list] of Wodehouse's shorts, with details of first publication and appearances in collections
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8713 Free eBook of "A Man of Means"] at Project Gutenberg
* [http://librivox.org/a-man-of-means-by-p-g-wodehouse-and-c-h-bovill/ Free audiobook of "A Man of Means"] at LibriVox (3h, Ogg-Vorbis or MP3 formats, ZIP of whole book MP3 86 MB)


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