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Ruggles of Red Gap

A humorous adventure about a British valet out of his element in a small Western town in the USA. Ruggles becomes the servant of an American couple after his employer uses him as a stake in a poker game. He travels to the West and is mistakenly identified as a wealthy Brit. He becomes a small town celebrity with many humorous twists in the plot.

Ruggles of Red Gap was initially serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in The Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915, adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year and made into a film several times, most famously in 1935 starring Charles Laughton.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 280
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781426434044
  • Genres
  • fiction, humor, classics, westerns
  • Release date
  • 2008