A Gentleman of Leisure - Couverture souple

Wodehouse, P. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140124527 ISBN 13 : 9780140124521

Editeur : Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

Jimmy Pitt, rich, generous, popular American bachelor, has fallen in love with an unknown girl on a transatlantic liner. He bets a friend at the Strollers Club in New York that he can break into a house. Unfortunately he selects the house of Police Captain McEachern.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When Jimmy Pitt makes a bet that he can successfully burgle a house, he is thrust unexpectedly into the presence of the only girl he could ever love and her crooked police-captain father. A year later, after a chance encounter leads to an invitation to the country, Jimmy and the quick-fingered Spike Mullins are under the same roof as the girl, her father, and a necklace worth a hundred thousand dollars. In A Gentleman of Leisure, true to classic Wodehouse, nothing is straightforward and the cast—including the formidable Lady Julia Blunt, the blundering but charming Lord Spennie Dreeves and not one but two detectives—stumbles through comedy after comedy in this delightful trans-Atlantic farce.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140124527
• ISBN 13: 9780140124521
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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