The Small Bachelor

Description

“George, no longer being obliged to earn a living, has given his suppressed desires play by coming to the metropolis and trying his hand at painting. From boyhood up he had always wanted to be an artist; and now he is an artist; and, what is more, probably the worst possible artist who ever put brush to canvas.” But George’s principal concern is to put an end to his bachelorhood, in the face of countless obstacles, including his beloved Molly’s fearsome stepmother Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, as well as George’s butler Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law. This is the 13th edition, published in 1950 by Methuen & Co.