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Summer Lightning

Name: Summer Lightning
Author: P.G. Wodehouse

Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the United Kingdom on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It was serialised in The Pall Mall Magazine between March and August 1929 and in Collier's from 6 April to 22 June 1929.

“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Source: Summer Lightning

“When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Source: Summer Lightning (1929)

“This done, he felt a little—not much, but a little—better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning (1929)

“At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said "Psst!"”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning (1929)