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When Maud Marsh flings herself into George Bevan's cab in Piccadilly, he starts believing in damsels in distress. George traces his mysterious traveling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where things become severely muddled. Maud's aunt, Lady Caroline Byng, wants Maud to marry Reggie, her stepson. Maud, meanwhile, is known to be in love with an unknown American she met in Wales. So when George turns up speaking American, a nasty case of mistaken identity breaks out. In fact, the scene is set for the perfect Wodehouse comedy of errors.

An outstanding example of Wodehousian prose, A Damsel in Distress entertains and amuses with a story that mixes romance, hilarious happenings and a masterfully set plot that revolves around not less masterfully penned characters.Published in 1919, first in the U.S. and only then, a few days later in the U.K., the novel is one of Wodehouse's early writings, not so well-rounded as the others, but already bearing the signature features of the typical Wodehousian text. The novel is in fact a complicated story of love in which everyone suffers from a love life crisis. It also features a complicated plot, with lots of detours and the compulsory happy ending when everything works out marvelously and every piece of the puzzle finds its place in the big picture. The story starts slowly, the introductions are long, but once the right atmosphere is established, the events speed up, making up a truly fascinating read and definitely exploring the funny possibilities of confusions to the maximum.Every human character trait is represented in this masterpiece by P. G. Wodehouse: we have the single-minded aristocrat, the Earl of Marshmoreton, the pompous aristocrat, Lord Belpher, the knight in the shining armor, George Bevan, to mention just a few, so the reader is in for a real treat.A Damsel in Distress is not only a well-plotted novel - it is also well-written. The style is typically Wodehousian, light, entertaining, witty - the best of Brit humor, indeed. The dialogues are exceptionally well-crafted - fast flowing and high spirited.Though many Wodehouse fans would not include A Damsel in Distress into the canon, the novel definitely has an important place in the writer's oeuvre as a great, sometimes melancholic, sometimes hilariously funny romance that gives the reader a lot to laugh about and a lot to contemplate about as well.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

P.G. Wodehouse is at his whimsical best as the characters of Belpher Castle muddle through impending catastrophes and ill-considered love affairs in this comedy of errors. George Bevan, an American composer of musicals, is in England to attend the performance of one. But when the Lady Patricia Maud Marsh slips into his taxi, he is drawn into the frivolous intrigues of Belpher Castle. George is mistaken for another American with whom Maud has fallen in love. Maud, in turn, is attempting to escape her aunt, Lady Caroline Byng, who is trying to marry Maud off to her step-son, Reginald. Meanwhile, her father, Lord John Marshmoreton, has fallen in love with an actress. As the Castle servants make bets on their Lords' and Ladies' capricious attachments, Wodehouse weaves a jaunty satire that will leave readers breathless with its twists and antics.

When Maud Marsh flings herself into George Bevan’s cab in Piccadilly, he starts believing in damsels in distress. George traces his mysterious traveling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where things become severely muddled. Maud’s aunt, Lady Caroline Byng, wants Maud to marry Reggie, her stepson. Maud, meanwhile, is known to be in love with an unknown American she met in Wales. So when George turns up speaking American, a nasty case of mistaken identity breaks out. In fact, the scene is set for the perfect Wodehouse comedy of errors.