The Intrusion Of Jimmy [Hardcover]

P. G. Wodehouse (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The main smoking-room of the Strollers' Club had been filling for the last half-hour, and was now nearly full. In many ways, the Strollers', though not the most magnificent, is the pleasantest club in New York. Its ideals are comfort without pomp; and it is given over after eleven o'clock at night mainly to the Stage. Everybody is young, clean-shaven, and full of conversation: and the conversation strikes a purely professional note. Everybody in the room on this July night had come from the theater. Most of those present had been acting, but a certain number had been to the opening performance of the latest better-than-Raffles play. There had been something of a boom that season in dramas whose heroes appealed to the public more pleasantly across the footlights than they might have done in real life. In the play that had opened to-night, Arthur Mifflin, an exemplary young man off the stage, had been warmly applauded for a series of actions which, performed anywhere except in the theater, would certainly have debarred him from remaining a member of the Strollers' or any other club. In faultless evening dress, with a debonair smile on his face, he had broken open a safe, stolen bonds and jewelry to a large amount, and escaped without a blush of shame via the window. He had foiled a detective through four acts, and held up a band of pursuers with a revolver. A large audience had intimated complete approval throughout.

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About the Author

Anglo-American wit, short-story writer, dramatist and lyricist, educated at Dulwich College and chiefly noted as the creator of the efficient butler, Jeeves. He wrote more than 90 books and more than 20 film scripts and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies. His major works include Psmith in the City (1910), Very Good Jeeves (1930), The Butler Did It (1957), Bachelors Anonymous (1974), O, Kay (1926) and Rosalie (1928). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421807963
• ISBN-13: 978-1421807966
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,137,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Terrible Transfer to Kindle, March 18, 2009

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Nathanial Dickson (SLC, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Intrusion of Jimmy (1909) (Kindle Edition)

I love P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories, and this one is as good as they come. But whoever did the transfer to the Kindle format clearly just did an OCR scan and didn't bother to proofread the output. Every page (and for Kindle on iPhone, there's only about 100 words on a page) has errors, things like "He" turning into "I-Ie" or exclamation points turning into the letter I. Names are mangled, but not consistently, so you have to keep figuring out anew who they are talking about. The most frustrating part is that having an editor do even one read-through would have caught and cleaned up these errors, but apparently they didn't even do that. It's nearly unreadable, and definitely detracts from the simple and lighthearted joy of the text, because you have to work so hard to *understand* the text. My recommendation is that you read the book, but not this version. Wodehouse deserves better.