Company for Henry

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Henry Paradene has inherited Ashby Hall, a rambling country house, but not the income to run it, in Company for Henry (1967; US title The Purloined Paperweight). His hope is to sell the place to a visiting American millionaire. The plot soon turns on a valuable paperweight, Henry's spirited niece Jane, and a young man who has his own reasons for turning up at the hall, which he keeps to himself at first.

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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.”