- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (31 Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140124551
- ISBN-13: 978-0140124552
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,082,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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." EVELYN WAUGH
--This text refers to the
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In the sleepy village of Rudge-in-the-Vale the customary peace has been shattered by an outbreak of hostilities between Colonel Wyvern and Lester Carmody of Rudge Hall. To make matters worse, Lester's nephew John adores the Colonel's daughter Pat, and this conflict is certain to disrupt the smooth course of true love.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
`Money for Nothing' sees the return of Wodehouse's favourite crook trio, Dolly the Dip, Soap Molloy and Chimp Twist whom we met previously in `Sam the Sudden'. Soapy is of course attempting to sell shares in none existent oil wells but Ronnie Fish is convinced the only money to be made is in Night Clubs `You can fuel some of the people all of the time and you can fuel all of the people some of the time.' He tells Soapy and Lester Carmody. Soapy is thwarted in his attempts to sell to Lester as he cannot liquidate the family heir looms in order to make a sale and so they hatch a plot to arrange for the theft of the articles in question so that Lester can get `Money for Nothing'.
Matters are complicated further by Lester's nephew, Hugh Carmody attempting to secure the necessary funds to go into the nightclub business with Ronnie Fish. Also complicating matters is Lester's other nephew, John Carroll, trying to woo Pat Wyvern whos father has forbidden the match as he is engaging in a law suit with Lester.
And so John and Wodehouse have only to foil the robbers without embarrassing the family, Obtain sufficient money to allow Hugo and Ronnie to waste it in a flawed enterprise and reconcile Lester and Colonel Wyvern so they can marry. All in a days work. Fantastic.
Matters are complicated further by Lester's nephew, Hugh Carmody attempting to secure the necessary funds to go into the nightclub business with Ronnie Fish. Also complicating matters is Lester's other nephew, John Carroll, trying to woo Pat Wyvern whos father has forbidden the match as he is engaging in a law suit with Lester.
And so John and Wodehouse have only to foil the robbers without embarrassing the family, Obtain sufficient money to allow Hugo and Ronnie to waste it in a flawed enterprise and reconcile Lester and Colonel Wyvern so they can marry. All in a days work. Fantastic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Welcome to the lovely village of Rudge-in-the-Vale, Worcestershire, a nice quiet place where you would like to settle down. Things are starting to get a bit chaotic in the area though, especially at Rudge Hall, and Healthward Ho, a health farm twenty miles away. Mr Carmody who owns the Hall has fallen out with Colonel Wyvern, starting a feud over an incident with an exploding tree. Mr Carmody has two nephews living with him; John, one of them, is hopelessly in love with Pat, Wyvern's daughter, and the other Hugo, needs some funds to go into partnership with a friend for a London nightclub.
Add in some American crooks, an insurance scam and other elements then you know you are solidly in the England of Wodehouse. This isn't a novel that instantly springs to mind when mentioning Wodehouse, but be assured that although this isn't the greatest thing he wrote there is more than enough here to have you chuckling away and enjoying yourself with. A great farce that you will want to read again and again.
Add in some American crooks, an insurance scam and other elements then you know you are solidly in the England of Wodehouse. This isn't a novel that instantly springs to mind when mentioning Wodehouse, but be assured that although this isn't the greatest thing he wrote there is more than enough here to have you chuckling away and enjoying yourself with. A great farce that you will want to read again and again.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Money for Something
30 Mar 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Like many readers bitten by the P.G. Wodehouse bug, I at one point attempted to procure all of the Master's literary output. That spell of power reading included this early novel, which I devoured in the hardback. On later rereading, however, I somewhat revise my initial favorable impression.
Why? How can a Wodehouse book get three stars? Simply in relation to the usual five star ratings. There are plenty of nuggets here (and did this title inspire the Dire Straits song?), but if this were the first Wodehouse title you picked up, you might not find him the stellar author that those who latch onto a Jeeves or Drones or Blandings novel generally find him to be.
Wodehouse would write for more than fifty years after this story first appeared, but even then he knew which were the good bits, and the best lines from this novel would appear verbatim later on. Of course he got that idea from his first life of writing musicals for the stage (and along with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern bringing the musical to America), where the good bits are endlessly rehashed in amusing variations.
Now that both Overlook Press in hardback and Penguin in paperback are reprinting the entire run of Wodehouse, completists will certainly want to sample this novel, but for those new to Wodehouse, Jeeves or the Drones are better places to start.
Why? How can a Wodehouse book get three stars? Simply in relation to the usual five star ratings. There are plenty of nuggets here (and did this title inspire the Dire Straits song?), but if this were the first Wodehouse title you picked up, you might not find him the stellar author that those who latch onto a Jeeves or Drones or Blandings novel generally find him to be.
Wodehouse would write for more than fifty years after this story first appeared, but even then he knew which were the good bits, and the best lines from this novel would appear verbatim later on. Of course he got that idea from his first life of writing musicals for the stage (and along with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern bringing the musical to America), where the good bits are endlessly rehashed in amusing variations.
Now that both Overlook Press in hardback and Penguin in paperback are reprinting the entire run of Wodehouse, completists will certainly want to sample this novel, but for those new to Wodehouse, Jeeves or the Drones are better places to start.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Pure Wonderful Wodehouse
28 Mar 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Have you ever come across a P.G. Wodehouse story that isn't an absolute delight? No, and this one is no different. Wodehouse is a master with words, creating a single sentence that can have you on the floor laughing hysterically. His plots, at first glance, seem unconnected but by the end, everything works out so beautifully it's almost stunning. Not only do things work out so nicely, but it's also great fun getting there. An especially great book for a nice Sunday afternoon...
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Very funny, absurb, and British
28 Aug 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
John Caroll loved Patricia Wyvern whom he had known since childhood, their being neighbours.
But John's uncle, Lester Charmody, mortally offended Colonel Wyvern, Patricia's father, when the former used the latter as a bodyshield when they both accidentally walked into a blast site on Charmody's grounds. Colonel Wyvern was of the old school and demanded proper apologies where he considered it due, causing a feud in a quiet countryside of Rudge. Worse for John that Pat considered him, too homely and unexciting.
Meanwhile, Lester Charmody was brooding over money problems. It was not that he had none, he had plenty. But he considered his trove pittance. Worse was his sitting on the Charmody's heirlooms which could not be sold out of the estate.
Lester's moods was not improved by his other nephew, Hugo, who pestered him for five hundred pounds to invest in a night-club with Ronnie Fish (of Blandings background).
The stalemate might have gone on indefinitely had not the Molloys insinuated themselves into Rudge Hall. An older husband to a younger pretty wife, the couple passed themselves off as a American oil tycoon with his daughter.
A plot was hatched between the Molloys and Lester to pretend to have the heirlooms stolen, claiming insurance, smuggled to America to be sold. The services of "Chimp" Alexendar Twist was secured to remove the valuables. Of course, they all planned to double-triple-cross each other.
Amidst the intrigue, Hugo Charmody and John Carroll learned that sometimes it took an enemy to provide them with a way out of their predicaments.
A very funny book, Wodehouse was meant to be enjoyed as a light-hearted book, definitely not to be taken too seriously.
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