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Piccadilly Jim: CSA Word Classic

Autor P. G. Wodehouse Martin Jarvis
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 31 dec 2008
Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. The problem is that Jim once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry. They set sail to New York together with Ann still not knowing her suitor is the dastardly critic. Add a brilliantly colorful Manhattan setting, an unlikely butler, odd spies, eccentric police officers, scientific secrets, plus an odious boy called Ogden, and the ingredients are in place for one of P. G. Wodehouse's most deliciously comic feasts. Martin Jarvis has established himself as the leading reader of Wodehouse. In this audiobook, as he did in Carry On, Jeeves and the Just William series, he brilliantly captures the author's irresistible brand of absurd hilarity.
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ISBN-13: 9781934997192
ISBN-10: 1934997196
Pagini: 1
Dimensiuni: 127 x 152 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Prescurtată
Editura: CSA Word
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Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. The problem is that Jim once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry. They set sail to New York together with Ann still not knowing her suitor is the dastardly critic. Add a brilliantly colorful Manhattan setting, an unlikely butler, odd spies, eccentric police officers, scientific secrets, plus an odious boy called Ogden, and the ingredients are in place for one of P. G. Wodehouse's most deliciously comic feasts. Martin Jarvis has established himself as the leading reader of Wodehouse. In this audiobook, as he did in Carry On, Jeeves and the Just William series, he brilliantly captures the author's irresistible brand of absurd hilarity.

Notă biografică

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance at Hollywood studios caused a furor. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955.