 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Methuen & Co. (UK) George H. Doran (US) |
Publication date | 28 April 1927 (UK) 17 June 1927 (US) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Small Bachelor is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 28 April 1927 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States on 17 June 1927 by George H. Doran, New York.[1]
It is based upon Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's book for the 1918 musical Oh, Lady! Lady!!.[2]
Set during Prohibition, the story tells of the romantic troubles of George Finch, a short-statured would-be artist living in New York's Greenwich Village. George falls in love with Molly Waddington but faces opposition from her socially ambitious step-mother, who wants Molly to marry an English lord.
One of the novel's characters, Officer Garroway, returns in Galahad at Blandings (1964). The Waddingtons' butler Ferris appears to be the same Ferris employed as butler at Ashby Hall in Company for Henry (1967).[3]
- ^ McIlvaine (1990), A37, pp. 51–53.
- ^ Frankos, Laura. "Musical of the Month: Oh, Boy!", Library for the Performing Arts, New York Public Library, August 27, 2012.
- ^ While their first names differ, butlers Rupert Antony Ferris (of The Small Bachelor) and Andrew Ferris (of Company for Henry) are identical in manner and appearance, and the latter Ferris references events from The Small Bachelor in chapter 5.2 of Company for Henry.