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The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses, and the theatrical boarding-houses where young men and women dream of finding fame and fortune. Coming into an inheritance, one of these young... Read Full Overview

Sally Nicholas is a young, pretty, and popular American woman who lives in a boarding house in New York and works as a taxi dancer. Upon reaching her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a considerable fortune. Sally tries to adjust to her new life, but financial and romantic... Read Full Overview

When Sally Nicholas became an heiress, she had to cope her brother's wild theatrical ambitions and the defection of her fiance, his replacement being a strangely unattractive suitor. A trip to England only made things worse, but then a piece of speculation might just offer a... Read Full Overview

A comic novel centred on character, circumstance, and social entanglement within a light narrative framework. In The Adventures of Sally, P. G. Wodehouse presents a story of shifting fortunes and relationships, following Sally Nicholas as she navigates changing... 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. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at... Read Full Overview

A P.G Wodehouse novel

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Sally Nicholas is a pretty and popular American woman working as dance partner for hire. Orphaned, she and her brother, Fillmore, has been on their own for years. However, on Sally's twenty-first birthday, her life is changed when she learns that she and her brother have inherited... Read Full Overview

Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage, until she becomes an heiress and watches in bewilderment as her orderly existence goes haywire. Coping first with her brother's wild theatrical ambitions, then with the defection of her... Read Full Overview

Sally looked contentedly down the long table. She felt happy at last. Everybody was talking and laughing now and her party rallying after an uncertain start was plainly the success she had hoped it would be.

Sally lives with her brother Fillmore in a cheap boarding house and works as a taxi dancer to earn her living. She is on the verge of getting engaged to a budding playwright, Gerald Foster. The story opens with Sally throwing a party to celebrate her good luck. The guests are... Read Full Overview

The young and beautiful Sally Nicholas was making her way in New York as a dancer for hire. Everything changes after she inherits a fortune on her 21st birthday.