If I Were You (novel)
Encyclopedia
If I Were You is the title of a novel
by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States
on September 3, 1931 by Doubleday, Doran, New York
, and in the United Kingdom
on September 25, 1931 by Herbert Jenkins
, London
.
The story concerns the romantic troubles of young Anthony Bryce, Earl of Droitwich.
Engaged to be married to Violet Waddington, heiress to 'Waddington's 97 Soups', Tony's life is thrown into chaos when his old nurse comes to pay him a visit, revealing a long-kept family secret. Tony departs for London with the resourceful Polly Brown, leaving the ancestral home in the hands of the Socialist barber Syd Price.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States
United States
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on September 3, 1931 by Doubleday, Doran, New York
New York
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, and in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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on September 25, 1931 by Herbert Jenkins
Barrie & Jenkins
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, London
London
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The story concerns the romantic troubles of young Anthony Bryce, Earl of Droitwich.
Engaged to be married to Violet Waddington, heiress to 'Waddington's 97 Soups', Tony's life is thrown into chaos when his old nurse comes to pay him a visit, revealing a long-kept family secret. Tony departs for London with the resourceful Polly Brown, leaving the ancestral home in the hands of the Socialist barber Syd Price.
External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with photos of book covers and a list of characters