The intrusion of Jimmy, [Hardcover]

P. G Wodehouse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1910

Short excerpt: 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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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: 314 pages
• Publisher: E.J. Watt (1910)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00085KMV4
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,266,650 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.