num_pages: 276
description: 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.
language: English
title: Ruggles of Red Gap
titlecomplete: Ruggles of Red Gap
genres: Fiction, Westerns, Humor, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 98
publisher: BiblioBazaar