A Damsel in Distress

by P. G. Wodehouse · 1919

An American composer falls for an English lady and blunders into the comic intrigues of an aristocratic country house.

Books mentioned in A Damsel in Distress (3)

• Mariana by Alfred Tennyson: “Tennyson's "Mariana" always made her wistful even when rendered by Albert.”
• Ingoldsby Legends by Richard Harris Barham: “one of those silk-and-satined little treasures she had read about in the Ingoldsby Legends.”
• The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: “And the Yeoman of the Guard had just been produced at the Savoy.”