The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 11, 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on January 3, 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. The story concerns amiable young Drone Monty Bodkin, the nephew of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe who was for a time one of Lord Emsworth's many secretaries (in Heavy Weather (1933)), and his complicated love life. Monty, the objec... more

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English writer whose body of work includes novels, collections of short stories, and musical theatre. Wodehouse enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his...
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