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A Man of Means is a sparkling comic sequence about sudden money, social ambition, romantic confusion, and the uncomfortable fact that good fortune often creates more trouble than it solves. Roland Bleke is an ordinary young man whose life changes when financial... Read Full Overview

The classic collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill describing the adventures of the young and wealthy Roland Bleke. The stories include:The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter, The Episode of the Financial Napoleon, The Episode of the Theatrical... Read Full Overview

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill.The stories all star Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes directly, and... Read Full Overview

A Man of Means is a sparkling comic sequence about sudden money, social ambition, romantic confusion, and the uncomfortable fact that good fortune often creates more trouble than it solves. Roland Bleke is an ordinary young man whose life changes when financial... Read Full Overview

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A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories that first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1914 and in the United States in 1916. The stories all feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom success comes far too easily and for whom financial success is a mixed blessing... Read Full Overview

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First of a Series of Six Stories First published in Pictorial Review, May 1916]THE EPISODE OF THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTERTHE EPISODE OF THE FINANCIAL NAPOLEONTHE EPISODE OF THE THEATRICAL VENTURETHE EPISODE OF THE LIVE WEEKLYTHE DIVERTING EPISODE OF THE EXILED MONARCHTHE EPISODE... Read Full Overview

"Please, sir, it's about my salary." His age was twenty-two and his name was Roland Bleke. Mr. Fineberg, at his word, drew himself together much as a British square at Waterloo must have drawn itself together at the sight of a squadron of cuirassiers. "Salary?"... Read Full Overview

First of a Series of Six Stories [First published in Pictorial Review, May 1916] When a seed-merchant of cautious disposition and an eye to the main chance receives from an eminent firm of jam-manufacturers an extremely large order for clover-seed, his emotions are mixed. Joy... Read Full Overview

A Man of Means, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted,... Read Full Overview

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. just before World War I, when he married an American. He wrote more than ninety books, and his works, translated into many... Read Full Overview

""A Man of Means"" is a collection of humorous short stories by P.G. Wodehouse and C.H. Bovill, first published in 1914. Set in the early 20th century, the anthology presents a series of interconnected tales that revolve around the amusing exploits of various eccentric characters,... Read Full Overview

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