Piccadilly Jim - Hardcover

Wodehouse, P. G.: - P. G. Wodehouse was an English novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, and comic master whose work helped define twentieth-century humorous fiction. Born in Guildford and educated at Dulwich College, Wodehouse developed a comic style instantly recognisable for its elegance, absurdity, verbal precision, and extraordinary lightness of touch. His fiction often presents a world of clubs, country houses, aunts, impostors, romantic entanglements, social embarrassments, and amiable young men caught in complicated plots they only half understand.Wodehouse is best known for the Jeeves and Wooster stories, the Blandings Castle novels, the Psmith books, and a large body of standalone comic novels and stories. His plots are often intricate farces, but the machinery is hidden beneath effortless prose, comic similes, perfectly timed reversals, and dialogue that turns minor social inconvenience into high art. Though his fictional world is stylised and deliberately removed from ordinary seriousness, his technical control as a comic novelist has been admired by generations of writers and readers.Piccadilly Jim belongs to Wodehouse's early mature period and shows many of the qualities that would make his later work famous: mistaken identity, romantic confusion, cross-Atlantic comedy, social performance, and elaborate comic plotting. Wodehouse remains essential to readers of British humour, classic comic fiction, romantic farce, light literature, and early twentieth-century English fiction.