Bill the Conqueror
Bill the Conqueror finds Felicia, a sprightly girl calculated to put the stuffing into any man, about to be married off to the dreary Roderick Pyke. But when Bill West arrives from New York she suddenly recognizes in him the man for whom she should forsake all others.
Bill the Conqueror finds Felicia, a sprightly girl calculated to put the stuffing into any man, about to be married off to the dreary Roderick Pyke. But when Bill West arrives from New York she suddenly recognizes in him the man for whom she should forsake all others.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781590200674 (1590200675)
Publish date: July 31st 2008
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Pages no: 366
Edition language: English
This was classic Wodehouse -- funny, charming, full of coincidences, mistaken intentions, and all the wrong people running into one another at exactly the wrong times.The eponymous Bill, lazy and without direction, fancies himself in love with a gorgeous dame named Alice, whose brother (and Bill's t...
Felicia Sheridan is in love with Bill West but engaged to Roderick Pyke. Bill, meanwhile, is engaged to Alice Coker and is dragging her brother Judson to London to keep him out of trouble while he checks on his uncle's holdings. Bill's wealthy uncle Cooley Paradene has had the misfortune of adopti...