- Large type books, Fiction in English, Fiction, general, Humorous stories
Big-time Hollywood producer Ivor Llewellyn, a five-time divorcee (due to a compulsion to propose over dinner) is off to London where his California divorce lawyer, Ephraim Trout, fears he might fall to the wiles of yet another woman. Trout belongs to "B.A.", patterned after AA, which helps men prevent getting married off. He suggests Llewellyn look up a lawyer while in England to help fill the gap.
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Comic, warm, effortless and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster, Barrie and Jenkins, G. K. Hall
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780880292795
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admir
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