In P.G. Wodehouse's famous novel, Freddie and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants to start a bookmaker’s business and to marry Eve, while his uncle wants to raise money, unbeknown to his wife, to help a runaway daughter. Freddie persuades his uncle to steal his wife’s necklace and sees Psmith’s advertisement in a daily paper.
Freddie enlists the services of Psmith to steal the necklace. There are plots and counterplots. Psmith steals, not the necklace, but Eve's heart.
Jane Austen's 1813 romantic novel of manners follows Elizabeth Bennett's circuitous path to finding love. Elizabeth's mother attempts to marry all five of her daughters to rich gentlemen and secure their family's future. Pulled in different directions by an assortment of suitors, Elizabeth realizes that a certain Mr Darcy may not be as dour and boorish as he seems.
