By Clifford Poultney. The diverting ups and downs of a cockney housewife, who knows what's what and refuses to be put upon. Her neighbours, relatives and friends learn to respect her, if only because she has a biting tongue.
She is a cockney of cockneys, wise in the ways of her class, and she is not blind to her own "attractions." Already Mrs. 'Arris is known to millions of readers. She is a celebrity.
Of all the humorous writers of to-day none is so popular as the author of _Piccadilly Jim_. His books sell all over the world and by the tens of thousands. Here are five:
A comedy novel that has run through many editions.
A story of humour and incident, full of smiles with a charming love interest.
A book of laughter for golfers and others. The memories of the oldest member of the golf club.
The newest Wodehouse novel, telling how Billie Bennett, wanting a Sir Galahad, compromised with Sam Marlowe.
Piccadilly Jim A Damsel in Distress A Gentleman of Leisure Love Among the Chickens Indiscretions of Archie
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Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle. Of the popular edition just published, 120,000 copies have already been called for.
Further Episodes In the Career of Bindle. No less than 87,000 copies of the ordinary edition were called for within a few weeks of publication.
A second edition, completing 60,000 copies, was ordered before the book appeared. Further episodes in the career of J.B.
Some incidents from the life of the Bindles. Among other things, it narrates how Mrs. Bindle encountered a bull and what happened to the man who destroyed her geraniums.
A Comedy of Whitehall which struck a new note and achieved a new success.
Some chapters from the records of the Malcolm Sage Bureau. The latest Herbert Jenkins' novel, a book of thrills and mystery.
A Comedy of Our Own Times that stirred five continents to laughter. It has been translated into Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, etc.
A romance of to-day, telling how Richard Beresford threw up a post at the Foreign Office and set out to tramp the roads as a vagabond, and how a girl sitting on a gate smoking a cigarette in the rain changed everything.
A comedy of mis-identification by which a man is proclaimed a returned prodigal. For reasons of his own, he is unable to divulge his true identity, with the result that he is plunged into a veritable maelstrom of embarrassments.