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The Prince and Betty

P. G. Wodehouse

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The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help. Little does he know that his stepdaughter Betty has history with the young man John Maude, and his schemes lead to a rift between the newly-reunited pair. (Introduction from Wikipedia)

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .CHAPTER VII MR. SCOBELL IS FRANK

Much may happen in these rapid times in the course of an hour and a half. While John was keeping his vigil on the sandstone rock, Betty was having an interview with Mr. Scobell which was to produce far-reaching results, and which, incidentally, was to leave her angrier and more at war with the whole of her world than she could remember to have been in the entire course of her life.

The interview began, shortly after breakfast, in a gentle and tactful manner, with Aunt Marion at the helm. But Mr. Scobell was not the man to stand by silently while persons were being tactful. At the end of the second minute he had plunged through his sister's mild monologue like a rhinoceros through a cobweb, and had stated definitely, with an economy of words, the exact part which Betty was to play in Mervian affairs.

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This is one of those reading experiences that can never be duplicated. It’s also just the kind of thing that I thrive on. (If you wanted an actual review on the actual story--silly you--you’ll have to skip to the final paragraph. My story about reading this story is going to take a while!)

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I selected The Prince and Betty for the collection after coming across it completely by accident. I’d always been aware of P.G. Wodehouse, but I’d never read him before, and I never suspected he wrote romantic fiction. I was utterly charmed and smitten with The Prince and Betty by page four, and by

Continuing to work my way through the entire Wodehouse corpus, and continuing to enjoy it.

Betty Silver is wistful and a bit jealous of her friend Elsa's recent happy marriage. The only man she'll ever love is John Maude and he only met her two or three times and doesn't know she exists. When Betty's stepfather, Mr. Scobell summons her to someplace called Mervo, she must obey. Mervo, an i

It's extremely difficult to find this book in the original UK version, as it appeared in The Strand. Even after carefully scrutinizing the e-book editions, I discovered halfway through the edition I was reading that I had made a mistake when Psmith appeared. (For the US edition, Wodehouse mashed up

It's not uncommon for an author to have an attachment to an idea, particulary when that idea comes early in their career and has yet to be displaced by the big breakthrough. This, I believe, is how Wodehouse felt with The Prince and Betty, as he recycled the plot several times in books and serials t

PG Wodehouse isn't an author one generally associates with being published by Mills and Boon, but one version of this 1912 novel of his actually did get released by those romance novel specialists. Not this particular version, though, which—while it does have a romantic angle to it—isn't primarily a

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