Piccadilly Jim

p.g. wodehouse

The fall brings four more antic novels from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Picadilly Jim (soon to be a major motion picture), Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. Uneasy Money sees the hard-up Lord Dawlish off to America to make a fortune, while in Cocktail Time events turn on the fate of a filmscript. Spring Fever is a light-hearted comedy involving love and various complications.

Genres fictionhumorclassicscomedybritish literatureaudiobook20th centuryromancenovelsliterature

302 pages, Hardcover

First published February 24,1917

This edition

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 21, 2004 by The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781585676163
ASIN: 1585676160
Language: English

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Denman Sturgis

Private investigator...
Mrs. Elmer Ford

Mrs. Elmer Ford, sometimes-divorced wife of prec., named Ruth in The Eighteen-Carat Kid, Nesta in The Little Nugget and in Piccadilly Jim, where she is two years married to Peter Pett, Elmer Ford having perished suddenly of an apoplectic seizure. A tall, ...
Ogden Ford

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Peter Pett

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Willie Partridge

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Ann Chester

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About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).