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Uneasy Money

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, is afflicted with a moneyless title. His status has earned him a beautiful fianc├®e, but the stresses of his woefully meager income are too much for young Claire to bear. She has therefore refused to marry him until his financial situation improves—significantly.

Lord Dawlish's fortunes improve greatly, literally, when a man he barely knows dies and leaves him a million dollars. Once the initial shock subsides, he is overcome with guilt and feels he must restore at least half of the money to the rightful heirs. His attempts to do so take him to America, where a cast of colorful characters and all manner of plot twists come to play in true Wodehouse style.

Full of Wodehouse's unrivaled humor, this novel takes listeners on a whirlwind ride across the Atlantic.

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Critic reviews

“The plot is pure Wodehouse…The result is hilarious and touching. Englishman Simon Vance’s breezy narration conveys all aspects of this charming story.”

(Talking Book Review)

“Wodehouse’s masterful language makes high comedy out of situations that would be dull or slapstick in less capable hands. He invites reading aloud…[Simon Vance] has a pleasant voice and a sympathetic feel for the material.”

(AudioFile)

“Uneasy Money offers plot twits that keep the ending from being too predictable and humor as sharp as in any of his other stories. Reader Simon Vance has a pleasant, Wodehousean voice that never becomes cloying.”

(Library Journal)
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A pleasant, easy read, a good story and peep into history. Thinking I should look in on Jeeves and Wooster.

A great old-fashioned romp

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This was very enjoyable and without the excessive number of players that some later stories became muddled with. Some very humorous parts. Well read and presented.

Great story

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There’s an odd production error in the audiobook - the amounts of money (there are three amounts important to the plot) all increased five-fold half way through the novel.

Aside from this minor issue, it’s a great reading of an excellent novel.

Vintage Wodehouse, often laugh out loud funny

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He manages not to give any hint that he finds the work of Mr, Wodehouse in the slightest bit amusing.

An excellent reader.

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What a gem of a novel.

A blatantly farcical plot involving inherited money and privileged folk provides the structure for a funny, insightful and heart-warming narrative about the vissisitudes of human existence. These characters display the full range of human foibles and weaknesses, and charmingly demonstrate the risks of honesty and extreme integrity....

Wodehouse was a consumate wordsmith with a gift for dialogue and a sneaky way of slipping real philosophy into his (apparently) slight stories from the mouths of his (apparently) frivolous characters.

The wonderful added bonus is his ability to help us see ourselves in his characters a full 100 years after they were created, and laugh out loud at their (our) simple humanness.

Listen and smile

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