The Coming of Bill
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 231
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A Pawn of Fate
24:56 -
Ruth States Her Intentions
18:31 -
The Mates Meet
16:35 -
Troubled Waters
25:27 -
Wherein Opposites Agree
26:28 -
Breaking the News
16:11 -
Sufficient unto themselves
27:32 -
Suspense
18:20 -
The White Hope is Turned Down
20:45 -
An Interlude of Peace
11:03 -
Stung to Action
13:04 -
A Climax
13:35 -
Empty-handed
17:02 -
An Unknown Path
26:16 -
The Misadventure of Steve
20:38 -
The Widening Gap
16:40 -
The Real Thing
13:44 -
The Outcasts
20:24 -
Cutting the Tangled Knot
37:33 -
Steve to the Rescue
8:38 -
At One in the Morning
15:33 -
Accepting the Gifts of the Gods
15:26 -
Mr Penway on the Grill
19:38 -
Dolls with Souls
20:35 -
Pastures New
12:06 -
The Sixty-first Street Cyclone
16:40 -
Mrs. Porter's Waterloo
16:54 -
The White-Hope Link
5:12
The Coming of Bill (1919) is a public domain work.
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About this book
An artist named Kirk Winfield and his wife Ruth are happy until the arrival of their son turns his upbringing into a battleground. Ruth's overbearing aunt, a believer in eugenics and scientific child-rearing, moves in with rigid theories about how young Bill must be raised, and her meddling, along with mounting money worries, slowly pulls the marriage apart. Lighter in touch than its subject sounds, the book pokes fun at fashionable pseudo-science and the tyranny of well-meaning relatives while taking its family drama more seriously than most Wodehouse. It is one of his softer, more sentimental novels, closer to domestic comedy than farce.
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Book facts
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- First published
- 1920
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 231
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)