A classic musical comedy plot turned into a novel, The Prince and
Betty is the story of a man who gives up everything for his girl.
Fortunately, she chances to be the step-daughter of a millionaire.
John Maude and Betty Silver are in love, but when John turns out to
be heir to the principality of Mervo, a small Mediterranean island
not a thousand miles from Monte Carlo, he finds himself ensnared in
the establishment of a new casino on the island, much to his
beloved's high-minded disgust. She leaves him and takes a job with
an American family in London; he abandons his post to follow her.
Eventually their misunderstandings are disentangled: the pair are
reunited, betrothed and bound for a new life in the United States.
And so it is that, in the process of telling their story, published
early in his career, Wodehouse constructs the critique of Europe
versus America, privilege versus enterprise, decadence versus
adventure, which was to underpin many of his later tales.
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