"The Coming Of Bill" WODEHOUSE, P.G.
$250
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
[252] pp.
Herbert Jenkins
Eighteenth Printing
7 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Dust wrapper design by B.A. Smith
Included w/ a facsimile dust jacket in addition to the original wrapper
The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was published as Their Mutual Child in the United States on 5 August 1919 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and as The Coming of Bill in the United Kingdom on 1 July 1920 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London. The story first appeared in Munsey's Magazine (US) in May 1914 under the title The White Hope.
The novel tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his wife Ruth, and their young son, Bill. Bill's upbringing is interfered with by Ruth's busybody aunt, Mrs. Lora Delane Porter, who is an author of books intended to uplift the public mind.
Unlike most of Wodehouse's novels, it is not a comic novel. According to publisher Penguin Books, The Coming of Bill "is the nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious novel, although the influence of the musical comedies he was writing at the time is never far away."