The Coming of Bill
The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published, as Their Mutual Child, in the United States in 1919 by Boni and Liveright, New…
The story so far
The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published, as Their Mutual Child, in the United States in 1919 by Boni and Liveright, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 1 July 1920 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story first appeared in Munsey's Magazine in May 1914, under the title The White Hope.
The book tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter.
A silent film version of Their Mutual Child was made in 1920.
Chapter index
27 chapters · No free excerpt- 1Chapter 1
- 2Chapter 2
- 3Chapter 3
- 4Chapter 4
- 5Chapter 5
- 6Chapter 6
- 7Chapter 7
- 8Chapter 8
- 9Chapter 9
- 10Chapter 10
- 11Chapter 11
- 12Chapter 12
- 13Chapter 13
- 14Chapter 14
- 15Chapter 15
- 16Chapter 16
- 17Chapter 17
- 18Chapter 18
- 19Chapter 19
- 20Chapter 20
- 21Chapter 21
- 22Chapter 22
- 23Chapter 23
- 24Chapter 24
- 25Chapter 25
- 26Chapter 26
- 27Chapter 27