Piccadilly Jim

By P.G. Wodehouse

This novel features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta. Nesta has remarried, to the hen-pecked, baseball-loving millionaire Mr. Peter Pett, and Ogden remains spoiled and obnoxious. Charismatic Jimmy Crocker, Nesta's nephew and a reforming playboy, is called upon to assist in the kidnapping of Ogden, amongst much confusion involving impostors, crooks, detectives, butlers, and aunts-- all in the name of romance of course.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Jan 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781625584946

P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) nació en Surrey. Tras trabajar un tiempo como periodista en Inglaterra, se trasladó a los Estados Unidos. Escribió numerosas obras de teatro y comedias musicales, y más de noventa novelas. Creador de personajes inolvidables -Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, su tía Agatha, Ukridge, Psmith, Lord Emsworth, los lechuguinos del Club de los Zánganos, y tantos otros, sus obras se reeditan continuamente, como corresponde a uno de los grandes humoristas del siglo.

Reviews for Piccadilly Jim

[stuart10er_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Jim is an American who causes waves by going to England and tying one on. His parents are not amused. He comes back to the US and woos a fair maiden who he previously knew.... oh well, too complicated to say all the things that happen. Needless to say, it all comes out ok in the end. Pretty formulaic, but still amusing.

[leslie398 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is one of the rare occasions when the audiobook was less enjoyable than reading the book in print. Although Frederick Davidson's normal speaking voice is fine, the voices he uses for some of the characters were off the mark and in some cases irritating. Too bad, as this is a very funny book with mostly American characters.

[ericcostello-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

One of Wodehouse's earlier efforts (originally published in 1917), and it doesn't really show him at his best. He hasn't quite rounded into the peak form that he would acquire later. Pretty much for completists only.

[helenliz_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

 A fun outing this one. Jim Crocker is a bit of a lad about town, which is fine until his name is linked with that of his aunt Nesta and she takes umbrage about it. She's convinced that Jim is a wastrel and that his life should be turned around by working for his living, preferably in her husband's firm. Jim doesn't necessarily agree with the plan, but he ends up falling in line when he falls for Nesta's husband's niece, Ann. Unfortunately, Ann has had a run in with Jim before, when he was working as a journalist and wrote a piece after an interview in which he scorned her poems and she has been set against him ever since, on principle. Somewhere mixed in all this is a boxer, a plan to kidnap a spoilt brat, baseball and two determined sisters who have married men who might be able to exert themselves in the office, but who wilt when faced with their wives. It's light-hearted and, unlike the Bertie Wooster books, at least has someone wanting to marry (unlike Bertie's aims to not be married). Enjoyable light writing, not entirely believable and relying on co-incidence, but you can forgive that when they're this much fun.

[philsyphe · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This isn’t one of Mr Wodehouse’s finest works, but there are enough laughs to make “Piccadilly Jim” a worthwhile read.

[wealhtheowwylfing · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I enjoy the Laurie/Fry series of Jeeves & Wooster, but it seems the books are not for me. I liked the fighting young couple (Ann and the eponymous Jim), but everyone else just annoyed me. It’s a light-hearted, baldly written story, and I could hardly get through it.

[carltonc_5 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The man can do no wrong - another corker!This is a story of farcical mix ups between an American and English extended family, when the antics of James Crocker (the eponymous Piccadilly Jim) in London upsets his step-mother when his antics may cost his American father an English Lordship.James Crocker shamed by his behaviour therefore takes ship for New York, meets the girl of his dreams on the ship, who he had upset five years earlier writing a biting review of her book of adolescent verse. She does not recognise him, so he pretends to be the son of his parent's butler (Bayliss - a precursor of Beach in the Blanding novels), but then is asked to pretend to be James Crocker (yes, himself!) in order to gain access to his aunt and uncle's house (they have never met him) to kidnap the extremely badly behaved son of his aunt, who is making his step-father's life a misery.Of course, it is more complicated than the above even begins to convey and yet it is written with such ease, when you are reading it it all makes perfect sense and it is so funny.Although not in one of the series for which he is better known, this is an excellent stand-alone Wodehouse.

[chrissterry_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love Wodehouse, but am used to his Jeeves & Wooster books, which are, essentially, a string of short stories. Piccadilly Jim is a single, coherent plot, told with the usual Wodehouse brilliance. Any description of the plot would undoubtedly be a 'spoiler'. Suffice it to say that it is shot through with deception, counter-deception and mistaken identity. Towards the end I scarcely dared to turn the page to the next Chapter in fear of the next excruciating twist and turn. Wooster is, in the end, always put upon by others. Piccadilly Jim manages to make his own trouble. Look out for the wonderfully written Miss Trimble, Housemaid and Private Detective, as well Skinner the butler!

[mausergem_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book has all the ingredients of a Wodehouse novel, a wayward nephew, a beautiful niece, head strong aunts, meek uncles, a crazy scientist and a fierce female detective. But somehow it lacks the humorous punch that make a good comic novel.All and all a disappointment.

[yosarian_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Now I have to come clean ... I am a big PG Wodehouse fan, as well as his books I also own several audiobooks of his stories or the BBC dramatisation of his stories. And Piccadilly Jim does not disappoint, it's full of the typical 'wodehouse' characters set in the typical 'wodehouse' plot ... which is to say literally anything can (and will!) happen. Kidnapping plots, people assuming false names and identities (in one case one fellow pretending to be someone else pretending to be himself .... picture The Life of Brian with men dressed as women pretending to be men ...), put-upon husbands, pretentious poets, phoney inventors, thiefs and the usual smattering of butlers - some even are who they claim to be.If all you know about PG Wodehouse is that Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie once played Jeeves and Wooster I urge you to read some of his other books, and this one would not be a bad place to start.