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Legacy Vintage Collection enhanced ebooks have been professionally edited for readability and professionally formatted for your favorite e-reader!BONUS CONTENT: Introduction, Glossary, Color Image Gallery"Royal Romance—Prince Weds American Girl—Love at First Sight—Picturesque Wedding!"These are the headlines American businessman Benjamin Scobell envisions when he pieces together his latest scheme: a publicity stunt designed to attract customers to his newly built casino on the Mediterranean island of Mervo. If only he had a few royals running around making headlines he knows his little rock could compete with the likes of Monte Carlo. Mervo hasn’t had a prince in years, but that doesn’t dissuade Benjamin from tracking down the long-lost heir to the throne, and when he finds him, he’s going to introduce him to the perfect girl for him, his stepdaughter Betty.Betty Silver has it all. She’s pretty, popular, and thanks to her stepfather, she’s filthy rich. She’s also lonely. Her friends in New York are starting to find love and get married, and Betty’s starting to think love isn’t in the cards for her. Every man she meets can’t see past her stepfather’s millions. Every man but one, that is, and she’ll probably never see him again. So when her stepfather summons her to Mervo, she’s ready for a change of scenery.But things don’t go quite as Benjamin planned. Turns out his new prince and his stepdaughter have a history together and Benjamin’s meddling schemes are about to blow up in his face and send Betty running back to New York to nurse a broken heart. But her prince is determined to win her back and prove to her he is the man she thought him to be after all, and sets off to track her down. A series of circumstances and coincidences in New York work to keep the lovers separated, but neither gangsters, nor unscrupulous businessmen, nor demanding newspaper editors can turn their hearts, and you’ll never guess how they finally end up reuniting!The Prince and Betty is a delightful read that sweeps the reader from a Mediterranean paradise to the seedy underbelly of the Big Apple, with plenty of excitement, humor, and love to help it along its way to a heartwarming conclusion.

P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writers of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published―beautifully designed and faithful to the original. This season, Overlook is pleased to offer the latest two hilarious volumes. Louder and Funnier is a collection of articles written for Vanity Fair, with subjects ranging from Shakespeare and divorce to income tax and ocean liners. The Prince and Betty is an engrossing, hilarious story of an unscrupulous millionaire and his plans to build a casino in the Mediterranean. Revised by Wodehouse after the initial publication, it features the master’s signature reflections on the rich in one of his classic novels.

On the contrary, it is, very much. I happen to have some self-respect. I've only just found it out, it's true, but it's there all right. I don't want to be a prince--take it from me, it's a much overrated profession--but if I've got to be one, I'll specialize. I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side. As long as I am on the throne, this high-toned crap-shooting will continue a back number.

The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help. Little does he know that his stepdaughter Betty has history with the young man John Maude, and his schemes lead to a rift between the newly reunited pair.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

On the contrary, it is, very much. I happen to have some self-respect. I've only just found it out, it's true, but it's there all right. I don't want to be a prince--take it from me, it's a much overrated profession--but if I've got to be one, I'll specialize. I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side. As long as I am on the throne, this high-toned crap-shooting will continue a back number.

The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally published in Ainslee's Magazine in the United States in January 1912, and, in a slightly different form, as a serial in Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom between February and April 1912. It was published in book form, in the United Kingdom by Mills & Boon on 1 May 1912. A substantially different version, which incorporated the plot of Psmith, Journalist, was published in the US by W.J. Watt & Company, New York on 14 February 1912. The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help. Little does he know that his stepdaughter Betty has history with the young man John Maude, and his schemes lead to a rift between the newly reunited pair.

THE CABLE PROM MERVO A pretty girl in a blue dress came out of the house, and began to walk slowly across the terrace to where Elsa Keith sat with Marvin Rossiter in the shade of the big sycamore. Elsa and Marvin had become engaged some few days before, and were generally to be found at this time sitting together in some shaded spot in the grounds of the Keith's Long Island home. "What's troubling Betty, I wonder," said Elsa. "She looks worried." Marvin turned his head. "Is that your friend, Miss Silver

A pretty girl in a blue dress came out of the house, and began to walk slowly across the terrace to where Elsa Keith sat with Marvin Rossiter in the shade of the big sycamore. Elsa and Marvin had become engaged some few days before, and were generally to be found at this time sitting together in some shaded spot in the grounds of the Keith's Long Island home.

Although many might not recognize the name P.G. Wodehouse, they have inevitably come across his work. Wodehouse was a British humorist who wrote novels, short stories, journalism pieces, and other stuff, becoming extremely popular over a 70 year career. Today he is best known for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, but he was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and 250 lyrics. Both the name "Jeeves" and the character of Jeeves have become a common part of the English lexicon, meaning a valet or chauffeur. It is even the inspiration behind the popular search engine Ask Jeeves.