Bill the Conqueror

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Bill West, a young American with a rich uncle, is sent to London in Bill the Conqueror (1924) to find out why the uncle's paper business there is losing money. In London he is drawn into the affairs of Sir George Pyke, a self-made newspaper owner, and falls for Flick Sheridan, Pyke's niece, who has run away to escape a marriage arranged for her with Pyke's son.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”