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If it's as well to be lucky as smart, Roland Bleke is doing everything right. From his start as a penurious clerk, Bleke adventures - and misadventures - through a life of the most startling turns of fortune in this series of six very funny stories. The plots follow on from each... Read Full Overview

The classic collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill describing the adventures of the young and wealthy Roland Bleke. The stories include:The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter, The Episode of the Financial Napoleon, The Episode of the Theatrical... Read Full Overview

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill.The stories all star Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes directly, and... Read Full Overview

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories that first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1914 and in the United States in 1916. The stories all feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom success comes far too easily and for whom financial success is a mixed blessing... Read Full Overview

This is a LARGE PRINT book for your convenience.Enjoy your reading"The young man who entered looked exactly like a second clerk in a provincial seed-merchant's office-which, strangely enough, he chanced to be. His chief characteristic was an intense ordinariness. He was a young... Read Full Overview

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose, admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn... Read Full Overview

First of a Series of Six Stories [First published in Pictorial Review, May 1916] When a seed-merchant of cautious disposition and an eye to the main chance receives from an eminent firm of jam-manufacturers an extremely large order for clover-seed, his emotions are mixed. Joy... Read Full Overview

This classic English humor volume by P.G. Wodehouse is a collection of short stories including, The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter, The Episode of the Financial Napoleon, The Episode of the Theatrical Venture, The Episode of the Live Weekly, and The Diverting Episode of the... Read Full Overview

For Roland Bleke Financial success is always a mixed blessing.

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes directly, and... Read Full Overview

Six early (1914) shorts, written in collaboration with C.H. Bovill: - The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter / The Landlady's Daughter- The Episode of the Financial Napoleon / The Bolt from the Blue- The Episode of the Theatrical Venture- The Episode of the Live Weekly- The Episode... Read Full Overview