Big Money, P. G. Wodehouse
Big Money, P. G. Wodehouse
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Big Money

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Jonathan Cecil

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Classic

Synopsis

Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire—but that doesn’t stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to “Biscuit,” Lord Biskerton, who doesn’t have very much of the stuff and so he has to escape to Valley Fields to hide from his creditors. Meanwhile, his old school friend Berry Conway, who is working for Frisby, himself falls for Ann—just as Biscuit falls for her friend Kitchie Valentine. Life in the world of Wodehouse can sometimes become a little complicated.

About P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in 1975.

About Jonathan Cecil

Jonathan Cecil (1939–2011) was a vastly experienced actor, appearing at Shakespeare’s Globe as well as in such West End productions as The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, and The Bed before Yesterday. He toured in The Incomparable Max, Twelfth Night, and An Ideal Husband, while among his considerable television and film appearances were The Rector’s Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chas on June 03, 2014

I saw two guys on a tube and one was reading an extract of this to the other and they were both howling with laughter. I bought it and became the bloke howling with laughter on a train. Want to laugh out loud in public? Read this book.......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on July 04, 2014

I chanced upon a piece the other week which said, and I paraphrase here, that if you read one of Wodehouse’s major series – Jeeves or Blandings – then you’re pretty much guaranteed pleasure, but if you wander off the beaten track you’re taking your life into your own hands. I’m not sure I’d agree. M......more

Goodreads review by John on August 18, 2022

Biscuit, Berry and Ann Moon are a triangle of laughter. Biscuit is engaged to Ann a wealthy woman. He is a Lord but without funds. Poor Berry is working as a secretary for Frisby who scams out of what he thinks is a worthless mine in Arizona. The suburbs of London become a dangerous place for Biscui......more

Goodreads review by Wesley on May 09, 2025

I was listening to this while doing yard work. My wife kept asking what I was laughing at. So many funny one liners, so many funny scenes.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on January 15, 2025

No one makes financial fraud quite so amusing as Wodehouse CW: casual racism......more

Quotes

“Light as a feather, but fabulous.” Ben Elton, praise for the author’s works

“You don’t analyze such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendor.” Stephen Fry, praise for the author

“Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists.” Susan Hill, praise for the author

“It’s dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I’ll risk it with him.” John Humphrys, English author and journalist

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