Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse
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The residence of Mr. Peter Pett, the well-known financier, on Riverside Drive is one of the leading eyesores of that breezy and expensive boulevard. As you pass by in your limousine, or while enjoying ten cents worth of fresh air on top of a green omnibus, it jumps out and bites at you. Architects, confronted with it, reel and throw up their hands defensively, and even the lay observer has a sense of shock. The place resembles in almost equal proportions a cathedral, a suburban villa, a hotel and a Chinese pagoda. Many of its windows are of stained glass, and above the porch stand two terra-cotta lions, considerably more repulsive even than the complacent animals which guard New York's Public Library. It is a house which is impossible to overlook: and it was probably for this reason that Mrs. Pett insisted on her husband buying it, for she was a woman who liked to be noticed.
Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse- Published on: 2015-06-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l, .46 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 146 pages
From Library Journal Wodehouse spoofs again the British upper crust in this 1917 title, which finds the incorrigible title character facing reform by his haughty aunt.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review "The very definition of British humor ... in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets as natty as the prose."
About the Author Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (P. G. Wodehouse) was an English humorist and writer best known for his Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels. Educated at boarding schools, Wodehouse turned to writing at a young age, demonstrating great skill at humorous sketches and musical lyrics. He continued to write part-time while pursuing, at the behest of his father, a career in banking, and successfully contributed numerous pieces to Punch, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Express, among other publications. In addition to his literary work, Wodehouse was incorporated into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in recognition of his collaboration with Cole Porter on Anything Goes, his lyrics to the song Bill from Show Boat, and his work on the musicals Rosalie and The Three Musketeers.
While interned along with other British citizens in Germany during the Second World War, Wodehouse made a series of radio broadcasts for which he was accused of being a collaborator; and, although later cleared of the charges, he never returned to England. His work has influenced many other writers including Evelyn Waugh, Rudyard Kipling, J. K. Rowling, and John Le Carr?. P. G. Wodehouse died in 1975 at the age of 93.Jeffrey Archer is one of the world s best-selling writers, having sold over 120 million copies of his novels and short stories world-wide. He is a former member of Parliament and currently a member of the British House of Lords. He lives in London and Cambridge with his wife, Mary.
Martin Jarvis career ranges from award-winning London theatre productions of Ayckbourn, Pinter and Wilde to Murder, She Wrote and James Cameron s Titanic in the U.S. He has twice received the British Talkies Award.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful Wodehouse By Dave_42 P. G. Wodehouse is at his best in "Piccadilly Jim". One or two humorous plotlines simply aren't enough for one of his stories. In this book we have Jimmy Crocker, a playboy of sorts on both sides of the Atlantic he becomes ashamed when his antics may have cost his American father an English Lordship. He decides to take on a different name, because of a girl, and then is forced to pretend to be that person pretending to be himself for the sake of that same girl. His father decides to come to America to be a butler so that he can follow baseball again. There are also kidnapping plots, other people pretending to be someone they aren't, an invention worth stealing, and more; all contained in this one story. If it sounds like it doesn't make sense, then it will when you read this book.This is a fairly early Wodehouse book, first being published on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mean and Company in the U.S., and it was published in May of 1918 in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins Limited. This book is not part of a series, although the characters Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta were introduced in "The Little Nugget".
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Top-notch Wodehouse By Craig Clarke For anyone who likes the Jeeves stories, I recommend continuing with the Wodehouse oeuvre with this short novel. It's an embarrassing thing to laugh out loud in public, but I enjoyed every page of this quick-paced story.The story involves Jimmy Crocker, who is a bit of a troublemaker. Always getting into scuffles in his home country of England (the papers call him "Piccadilly Jim" to his chagrin), he decides to go to New York. On the way, he meets a beautiful young woman, but later hears her talking to her family about what an awful person "that James Crocker" is. He decides in order to meet her, he will have to pretend to be someone else, one Algernon Bayliss (a name made up on the spur of the moment).However, due to his uncanny resemblance to James Crocker (he is continually running into people who recognize him as Crocker), the girl plans to pass "Algernon" off as Crocker to their shared aunt. So Jimmy has to pretend to be Algernon pretending to be Jimmy, all the while trying to get this girl to fall in love with him. (They're really only step-cousins through a second marriage.)This is a terrific story of mistaken identity (there are several other events involved including James' father masquerading as a butler and a rich couple's child who wants to be kidnapped in order to split the proceeds) but Wodehouse carries all the confusion perfectly, making sure we are able to follow the action, yet without insulting our intelligence, a great feat in itself.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Love at first read! By Vanitha Srinivasan Picadilly Jim is the first Wodehouse book I have read and thoroughly enjoyed it.This is not a book that you finish reading in 3 days.You want to take your time and relish the language and the play of words. The story has many layers and each layer is as delightful (if not more) as the previous one.Cant wait to read another Wodehouse!
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