The Luck of the Bodkins

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Most of The Luck of the Bodkins (1935) takes place on an ocean liner bound from England to New York. Monty Bodkin, a well-meaning young man, has quarreled with his fiancée, Gertrude Butterwick, who is sailing with a women's hockey team. Also on board are a Hollywood studio head whose wife has ordered him to smuggle a necklace through customs, a film starlet and a meddling steward, and their schemes keep threatening Monty's engagement.

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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.”