Bachelors Anonymous 1974 WODEHOUSE, P.G.

WODEHOUSE, P.G.

[186] pp.

Simon and Schuster

1974

First Edition

8 1/4" x 5 3/4"

Jacket illustration by Osbert Lancaster

Bachelors Anonymous is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 15 October 1973 (Wodehouse's 92nd birthday) by Barrie & Jenkins, London and in the United States on 28 August 1974 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.

In the novel, movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn, who has divorced five times, is interested to learn from his lawyer Ephraim Trout about a support group for bachelors who help keep each other from making impulsive marriage proposals.

Ivor Llewellyn previously appeared in The Luck of the Bodkins (1935), Frozen Assets (1964), and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972). Another character, lawyer Jerry Nichols, appeared in Uneasy Money (1916).

Bachelors Anonymous was the second last novel completed by Wodehouse, with the last being Aunts Aren't Gentlemen