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A gentleman of leisure / P.G. Wodehouse.
Van Pelt Library PR6045.O53 G4 2003
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975.
- Series:
- Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975. Collector's Wodehouse
- The collector's Wodehouse
- Standardized Title:
- Intrusion of Jimmy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burglary--Fiction.
- Burglary.
- Police--Family relationships.
- Police.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- British--United States--Fiction.
- British.
- United States.
- Police--Family relationships--Fiction.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this comic novel -- dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in the stage version -- Jimmy Pitt, man-about-town and former newspaper hound, takes a bet that he cannot commit burglary. He finds breaking and entering easy enough, but then discovers that he has forced his way into the home of a tough New York policeman. Naturally, Captain McEachern has a beautiful daughter and problems of his own. The complications which ensue from their meeting, involving a rich cast of Wodehousean characters from both sides of the Atlantic, create one of his most amusing and light-hearted early novels.
- Contents:
- 1. Jimmy Makes a Bet 11
- 2. The New Pyramus and Thisbe 21
- 3. Mr McEachern 29
- 4. Molly 35
- 5. A Thief in the Night 41
- 6. An Exhibition Performance 49
- 7. Getting Acquainted 57
- 8. At Dreever 65
- 9. A New Friend and an Old One 71
- 10. Jimmy Adopts a Lame Dog 81
- 11. At the Turn of the Road 88
- 12. Making a Start 100
- 13. Spike's Views 111
- 14. Check, and a Counter Move 118
- 15. Mr McEachern Intervenes 129
- 16. A Marriage Has Been Arranged 137
- 17. Jimmy Remembers Something, and Hears Something Else 149
- 18. The Lochinvar Method 160
- 19. On the Lake 169
- 20. A Lesson in Piquet 178
- 21. Loathsome Gifts 187
- 22. How two of a Trade did not Agree 191
- 23. Family Jars 199
- 24. The Treasure-Seeker 212
- 25. Explanations and an Interruption 222
- 26. Stirring Times for Sir Thomas 231
- 27. A Declaration of Independence 238
- 28. Spennie's Hour of Clear Vision 249
- 29. The Last Round 255.
- Notes:
- Originally published by W.J. Watt and Co., New York, 1910, under the title: The intrusion of Jimmy.
- "This edition reprints the text of the 1921 Herbert Jenkins edition"--Title page verso.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975. Intrusion of Jimmy. Gentleman of leisure.
- ISBN:
- 1585673919
- 9781585673919
- OCLC:
- 52151403
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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