Big Money

by P.G. Wodehouse

Book Overview

Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire--but that doesn't stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014000937X
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Penguin
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.7" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

My dear chap, I'm agog!

As the book opens and our hero asks, 'Are you sure you want to hear the story of my life, Biscuit?' 'My dear chap, I'm agog...', you know you are in for a fast and hilarious ride. I am in agreement with other Wodehousians when they say a 4 star Wodehouse still walks on the backs of others; but this is pure 5 star. This book is light enough, gay enough, to let you leave everything behind and turn pages faster than a literary rabbit late for a luncheon date. Lord Biscuit is original, he is not Psmith or Bertie or Ukridge. I guess one could say that one has found a lesser known classic, don't you know; and if you are not a Wodehouse nut, reading this will give you Wode-cred with the die-hards. . .

whoa nelly

I LOVE Wodehouse. I have this system where I try to read really thick "smart" books. You know, like the kind you bring up when you're trying to impress people with your intellectual prowess ("Oh yes, I completely agree. In fact, in the 'Metaphysics of Morals', Kant says basically the same thing, albeit more obtusely.") When my brains slither out through my ears in protest, that's when I know that it is time to put down the philosophy and pick up a Wodehouse. They're insanely funny and impossibly witty, and it gives me time to collect the pieces of my gray matter and shove them back in my head for another go at snooty intellectualism.

Wonderfully funny!

I enjoy all of P.G. Wodehouse's novels, and this one is just great. I really liked it. The story kept me interested. If you like a book that's funny and witty here's the book for you.

One of Wodehouse's Finest

This 1931 novel has long been one of my favorites among Wodehouse's many novels. It's a mix of farce and romantic comedy; whereas in much of Wodehouse's later work, the love plots seem almost perfunctory, here the romance between English Berry Conway and American Ann Moon (Wodehouse loved to work in trans-continental romances for his American readers) takes up much of the novel and is given a sweetness and warmth not always apparent in Wodehouse's funny, but sometimes slightly mechanical, post-WWII work. Of course, there's plenty of farcical action too, including many inspired sequences set in Wodehouse's "Valley Fields" (a thinly disguised version of the London suburb Dulwich). The hilarious chapter in which Lord Hoddesdon visits Valley Fields - and runs into a menacing fellow with an admiration for Stalin - is alone worth the price of this wonderful book.

Vintage Wodehouse.

This one begins at the Drones Club, just like several of the Bertie Wooster stories, but these are not the Wooster characters. But with wonderful names like the Biscuit, Torquil, Kitchie, and Merwyn Flock, PGW does use some of his usual character types and plot lines: couples engaged to the wrong people, young men needing money. This is good vintage Wodehouse and a rather complex novel, not just a series of stories thrown together. And it was a lot of fun. But give me Bertie Wooster any day!