09-A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE

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A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine.

It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy, by W.J. Watt and Co., New York, on 11 May 1910. It was serialised under that title in the British weekly magazine Tit-Bits between 11 June and 10 September before being published as A Gentleman of Leisure by Alston Rivers Ltd, London, on 15 November 1910.^[1] There are minor textual differences between the American and British editions of the book.^[3]

A Gentleman of Leisure was adapted for the stage in 1911 and has twice been filmed, in 1915 and 1923