Review of a Book.

Title: A damsel in Distress. By P.G Wode House.

5 lines about author:

1. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( 15 Oct 1881-14 Feb 1975) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and numerous pieces of journalism.

2. He wrote more than 90 novels and some 300 short stories over 73 yrs. 3. He is widely recognized as the greatest 20th century writer of humor in the English novels. 4. One of the awards he received is the Mark Twain Medal in 1936 for having made and outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world. 5. To have created so many characters that require no introduction places him in a very select group of writers, lead by Shakespeare and Dickens.

About characters in story:
John, 7th Earl of Marshmoreton — never happier than when cultivating his roses; Lady Caroline Byng — The Earl's sister, step-mother to Maud
Reggie Byng — Step son of Caroline ,who nurses a secret love for Alice Faraday
Alice Faraday — the Earl's secretary, regarded by former employers as a jewel, by Lord Marshmoreton as "a perfect incubus".
Lady Patricia Maud Marsh — Lord Marshmoreton's daughter, who is the “Damsel In Distress”
Mac — stout guardian of the stage door of the Regal Theatre.
George Bevan — a young American composer, always ready to help a damsel in distress.
Billie Dore — a chorus girl, with an unexpected interest in roses.
Percy Wilbraham Marsh, Lord Belpher — Lord Marshmoreton's son and heir, a stout young man, with the manner of a well-dressed but overfed bloodhound.
Albert the page — a young man of gruesome tastes and aspirations to be a butcher

Summary:
When George Bevan, bored 27-year-old American composer of successful musical comedies, hailed a taxi on London's Piccadilly, he had no idea that, almost immediately, he would be sharing the vehicle with a damsel in distress. George discovers that he has fallen in love with her. Unfortunately, he doesn't even know her name.
The damsel is, in fact, Lady Maud Marshmoreton, only daughter of the widowed 7th Earl of Marshmoreton. Confined to the family home, Belpher Castle in Hampshire, to keep her from the man she fell in love with in Wales a year ago, she has managed to escape to London for the day in order to meet him. Unfortunately, her brother Percy is also in town and it is to escape from him that she sought refuge in George's taxi. Her father’s sister, Lady Caroline Byng, wants him to encourage Lady Maud to marry her stepson, Reggie, unaware that Reggie is nursing a secret love for the other female in Lord Marshmoreton's life, Alice Faraday.
George, having succeeded in identifying Lady Maud, takes up residence in a rented cottage close to the castle and is quickly—and mistakenly—identified as "the man in Wales". George is delighted when he hears, from no less a personage than the 7th Earl, that Maud loves him.
At which point the Earl announces to the assembled family that Maud and George are engaged . . .
Reggie, showing a surprising gift for stratagems, will marry Alice, much to the relief of Lord Marshmoreton. And, to the astonishment of his family, Lord Marshmoreton will abandon his widowed estate. And all is well that ends well.

The characters or incidents you like most in the story:
Incident: The most crucial part that is the appearance of Maud as a Damsel in Distress to George is my favorite incident.
Character: George. He is the main hero and the one with the spotlight. His role is the most needed and appreciated one. His learning and understandings of the world is what makes me like him.
Would you recommend this book to anyone:
I would recommend this book to be useful to people who would like to spend their time better. And to people who like comedies and to major fans of P.G Wodehouse since this is one of the best books he has written.