A Damsel in Distress (Saturday Evening Post serial)

A Damsel in Distress (1919)
by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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As serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, 1919, May 10 to June 28. Illustrated by Henry Raleigh. The novel was adapted into a stage play written by Wodehouse and Ian Hay in 1928, and into a musical starring Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Joan Fontaine, in 1937.

Extremely amusing. The story is comedy, but borders on burlesque. The contrasts between English and American slang and colloquialism are clever and the two types are consistently rendered. Dialogue and incident are continuously entertaining. —Review in The Outlook, 12 Nov. 1919.

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“If There Is Anything in the World I Can Possibly Do for You,” He Said Slowly, “I Hope You Will Let Me Know. I Should Like Above All Things to Help You.”

A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

By Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY RALEIGH

Parts (not listed in original)

Part I 10 May 1919
Part II 17 May 1919
Part III 24 May 1919
Part IV 31 May 1919
Part V 7 June 1919
Part VI 14 June 1919
Part VII 21 June 1919
Part VIII 28 June 1919

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1919, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1975, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 48 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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A Damsel in Distress (Saturday Evening Post serial)

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