Bill the Conqueror

Name: Bill the Conqueror
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781481510493

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/20/2015

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

Sir George Pyke is quite disappointed in his son Roderick's business acumen. Roderick, unlike his old man, lacks the aggressive drive required of a business tycoon. So the elder Pyke resolves to marry him off to the sprightly Felicia, who has enough spark to manage any man and may just do him a world of good. All is going well until Bill West arrives from New York. Felicia recognizes in this strong, ambitious chap the man for whom she should forsake all others—but making their way to the altar may be easier said than done.This romantic comedy from master humorist P. G. Wodehouse is sure to delight, whether you're new to his work or a longtime fan.

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 Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over seventy Earphones Awards and seventeen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Douglas on January 10, 2009

Wodehouse is the guy.......more

Goodreads review by Ian on October 28, 2007

Sir George Pyke, founder of the Mammoth Publishing Company, is keen for his son, Roderick, to marry his sister’s husband’s niece, Felicia who is ‘sprightly enough to put the stuffing into any man’. Unfortunately Roderick is in love with the stenographer from ‘Society Spice’, which Roderick edits wit......more

Goodreads review by Chet on October 06, 2021

Example of P.G. Wodehouse's brilliant use of language: on page 347 - "Placid, stolid, wrapped up in its own affairs and titanically indifferent to all else, London went about its daily business. From Putney to Sloane Square, from Cricklewood to Regent Street, from Sydenham Hill to the Strand, from e......more

Goodreads review by Prakash on February 27, 2020

Bill the conqueror is one of the early works of Wodehouse. Though this work isn't brewed by the regular rib ticklers such as Wooster, Jeeves and PSmith; yet it gets you intoxicated. Going by the plot of people getting engaged to wrong persons and trying to get disentangled; plot having its fair shar......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 13, 2023

Audible versions especially fun for Wodehouse......more

Quotes

“Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.”