The tyrannical governor Gessler has set his hat on a pole and ordered the Swiss to bow to it, and William Tell, a famously argumentative crossbowman, will not. Wodehouse turns the legend into a brisk comic novel of bumbling soldiers, cudgel-waving crowds and the famous apple, accompanied here by John W. Houghton’s verses for Philip Dadd’s pictures.
An early Wodehouse book from 1904, already showing the light touch that later gave the world Jeeves and Blandings. Download the free EPUB.