Piccadilly Jim

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Piccadilly Jim is notorious. He is splendid 'copy' for the journalist, and a source of exquisite anguish to his family. No one ever knows what he is going to do next. In his own country the young American is regarded as an epitome of wickedness and dissipation. He is intent on seeing life. His aunt, on the other hand, is equally determined that he shall see reason. She starts for Europe bent upon her nephew's salvation