Book description
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim -
nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a
string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he bacomes
rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open.
But no sooner has Jimmy cut wild swathe through fashionable London
than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then
falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that
things get complicated.
In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that
(for reasons that will become clear, we promise) Jimmy ends up having
to pretend he's himself. Piccadilly Jim is one of P. G.
Wodehouse's most renowned early comic novels, and has been filmed
three times.
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves,
Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G.
Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two
years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer,
contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and
short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage
had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in
the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue
Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
