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The Coming of Bill

By P. G. Wodehouse

2019-03-28 15:34:08

The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published as Their Mutual Child in the United States on 5 August 1919 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and as The Coming of Bill in the United Kingdom on 1 July 1920 by Herbert Jenkins L ... Read more
The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published as Their Mutual Child in the United States on 5 August 1919 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and as The Coming of Bill in the United Kingdom on 1 July 1920 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London. The story first appeared in Munsey's Magazine in May 1914 under the title The White Hope. The novel tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his wife Ruth, and their young son, Bill. Bill's upbringing is interfered with by Ruth's busybody aunt, Mrs. Lora Delane Porter, who is an author of books intended to uplift the public mind. Unlike most of Wodehouse's novels, it is not a comic novel. A silent film version Their Mutual Child was released in 1920. Less

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File size221.353 KB
Print pages180
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date1919-01-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781846374241
SirPelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 Oct 1881 – 14 Feb 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His early novels were mostly school stories, but h...

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