I was pleased to learn about a week ago that some of P.G. Wodehouse's early novels can be downloaded to the Amazon Kindle for free.
About 15 years ago, Sherry and I had a great time reading through all of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories. I'm now reading to her Uneasy Money, a romantic comedy that was first published in the U.S. in 1916 after appearing in installments in the Saturday Evening Post.
Although this novel was written during World War I, it mentions nothing directly about the war. Wodehouse's characters are concerned about things like golf, baseball, and marriage, but they live in a world without wars and rumors of wars. His readers, who were weighed down enough by world events, no doubt appreciated the opportunity to escape temporarily from the bad news reported daily in the press.
Uneasy Money was made into a silent movie in 1918. There's enough physical comedy (e.g., a pet monkey that throws eggs) and twists and turns of plot in the book to support a good silent movie, but there's no way the movie could have done justice to Wodehouse's dextrous use of the English language, the thing that makes his writing so much fun to read.
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