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Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse
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Piccadilly Jim

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Narrator Frederick Davidson

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Length 8 hours 13 minutes
Language English
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He was a gossip columnist’s dream. Piccadilly Jim’s life was a collage of broken promises and drunken brawls.

And Jim’s straight-laced Victorian aunt was not amused. So, she decided to reform him. Unfortunately, her reform project started at a time when Jim had fallen in love and had already decided to reform himself. Thus, life became complicated.

Jim pretends to be himself—a beautiful display of Wodehousean logic; hilarious indeed!

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in 1975.

Frederick Davidson (1932–2005), also known as David Case, was one of the most prolific readers in the audiobook industry, recording more than eight hundred audiobooks in his lifetime, including over two hundred for Blackstone Audio. Born in London, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed for many years in radio plays for the British Broadcasting Company before coming to America in 1976. He received AudioFile’s Golden Voice Award and numerous Earphones Awards and was nominated for a Grammy for his readings.

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“Davidson has the urbane, British intonation that goes hand in hand with the protagonist of Piccadilly Jim, a ‘hale-fellow-well-met’ American…His light characterizations of the British male uppercrust come off well…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

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