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Piccadilly Jim: A Classic Comic Novel of Mistaken Identity and Romantic Farce
Paperback
HumorMystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604597905
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Sep 16 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Piccadilly Jim is a sparkling comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, full of mistaken identity, romantic confusion, family schemes, and the effortless comic timing that made Wodehouse one of the great humorists in English fiction. The story follows Jimmy Crocker, a young man with a damaged reputation, an inconvenient past, and a talent for getting himself into elaborate trouble. Moving between London and New York, Wodehouse builds a farcical plot of imposture, disguise, social ambition, matchmaking, and unexpected affection, all carried by his lightness of touch and unmistakable comic prose.
Written before the full flowering of the Jeeves and Blandings books, Piccadilly Jim already shows Wodehouse's mastery of social comedy, dialogue, romantic complication, and beautifully engineered absurdity. It belongs to the golden world of early twentieth-century comic fiction, where embarrassment becomes architecture and every misunderstanding is an opportunity for delight. For readers of classic humorous fiction, British comedy, romantic farce, Edwardian and early modern popular fiction, and the novels of P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim remains one of his most enjoyable standalone comic novels.
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