Psmith In The City
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the bustling heart of Edwardian London, the irrepressibly eccentric Psmith finds himself unceremoniously dragged from the cricket pitches of Cambridge and deposited into the soul-crushing machinery of a city bank — a fate he considers nothing short of a civilisational catastrophe. Psmith in the City, the second instalment in P. G. Wodehouse's beloved Psmith series, chronicles the magnificently monocled protagonist's collision with the mundane world of commerce, as he and his loyal friend Mike Jackson navigate petty tyrants, tedious ledgers, and the suffocating rituals of London banking life with magnificent disdain and ingenious subversion. Wodehouse's comic genius is on full display here, presenting a razor-sharp satire of Edwardian social conventions and the dehumanising nature of white-collar drudgery, all rendered in his signature prose — effervescent, precise, and perpetually on the verge of absurdity. Psmith himself stands as one of English literature's great comic creations: an aristocratic wit armed with an unshakeable belief in his own superiority and an inexhaustible talent for monologue. First published in 1910, this novel remains a cornerstone of comic fiction, and one cannot help but wonder — in a world of impossible bosses and pointless bureaucracy, has anything truly changed?
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, A. & C. Black, Ltd.
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the bustling heart of Edwardian London, the irrepressibly eccentric Psmith finds himself unceremoniously dragged from the cricket pitches of Cambridge and deposited into the soul-crushing machinery of a city bank — a fate he considers nothing short of a civilisational catastrophe. Psmith in the City, the second instalment in P. G. Wodehouse's beloved Psmith series, chronicles the magnificently monocled protagonist's collision with the mundane world of commerce, as he and his loyal friend Mike Jackson navigate petty tyrants, tedious ledgers, and the suffocating rituals of London banking life with magnificent disdain and ingenious subversion. Wodehouse's comic genius is on full display here, presenting a razor-sharp satire of Edwardian social conventions and the dehumanising nature of white-collar drudgery, all rendered in his signature prose — effervescent, precise, and perpetually on the verge of absurdity. Psmith himself stands as one of English literature's great comic creations: an aristocratic wit armed with an unshakeable belief in his own superiority and an inexhaustible talent for monologue. First published in 1910, this novel remains a cornerstone of comic fiction, and one cannot help but wonder — in a world of impossible bosses and pointless bureaucracy, has anything truly changed?