Sam the Sudden is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on 15 October 1925 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the U.S. on 6 November 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title Sam in the Suburbs. The story had previously been serialised under that title, in the Saturday Evening Post from 13 June to 18 July 1925.
The cast includes the recurring character Lord Tilbury, publishing magnate and founder of the Mammoth Publishing...
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Sam the Sudden is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on 15 October 1925 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the U.S. on 6 November 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title Sam in the Suburbs. The story had previously been serialised under that title, in the Saturday Evening Post from 13 June to 18 July 1925.
The cast includes the recurring character Lord Tilbury, publishing magnate and founder of the Mammoth Publishing Company, who appeared in Wodehouse's novel of the previous year, Bill the Conqueror, and who would later visit Blandings Castle in Heavy Weather (1933). It also introduces the criminals Alexander "Chimp" Twist, Dora "Dolly" Gunn and Thomas "Soapy" Molloy, who would return in Money for Nothing (1928) and Money in the Bank (1946).
The story is a romantic comedy, the hero of which is Sam Shotter, an alumnus of Wrykyn school. Sent to England by his uncle to work for the Mammoth Publishing Company, he finds a girl he has long adored, despite only...
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