P. G. Wodehouse
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One of P. G. Wodehouse's most enticing later works, Barmy in Wonderland is a gem of a novel from the master of social satire and comedy. Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps, known to his friends as Barmy, has made a poor decision. He has invested ten thousand dollars in a stage production that seems doomed from the start in order to be near the woman of his dreams-Miss Dinty Moore. Will he find true love, or merely lose a fortune? Featuring a cast of sharply...
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George Uffenham, the eccentric sixth viscount of Uffenham, has just converted the family fortune into diamonds-and stashed them away in a secret hiding place. But as luck would have it, an unfortunate car accident soon thereafter causes him to forget the jewels' location. In order to recover the gems, he must let out his estate, Shipley Hall, to big game hunter Clarissa Cork and return posing as the butler, Cakebread. Thus disguised, he will have...
83) Nothing Serious
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Filled with faces old and new, this collection of stories from the master of humor promises pure entertainment for audiobook lovers everywhere. P. G. Wodehouse's famed collection of ten stories marks the reappearance of many old friends-who find themselves in delightfully absurd situations. In "How's That, Umpire?" a mutual hatred of cricket reunites two lovers. In "Birth of a Salesman," Lord Emsworth has strayed from Blandings Castle to become an...
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There were times when Bertie Wooster, the fictional narrator of these stories, was thought of as being at least a trifle feather brained. However, he had a valet who seemed to know everything about everything. These are among more than three hundred short stories written by a man who began a short-lived career in banking after his college days.
However, it didn't take long for P. G. Wodehouse to decide he didn't like that kind of job, and he began...
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Our Introduction is actually several comments by author P. G. Wodehouse. He wrote:
This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the fairway on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself...
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Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is. Fireside Reading is a way to slow down, reconnect with the timeless wisdom of great books and rediscover the simple pleasure of being read to. Join Gildart Jackson in front of a cozy fire as he reads My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse to you and your family from beginning to end.
88) The Girl In Blue
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Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle, Willoughby, is rich but won't hand over any of his inheritance. And to cap it all, although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicutt, whom he's just met on jury service. But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too-because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fiancée,...
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Things on board the RMS Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated. Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks that she has a thing for his brother, Reggie, who is struck by Mabel Spence, sister-in-law of Ikey Llewellyn (movie mogul, Ambrose's prospective employer, and reluctant smuggler), but hasn't the means to marry her. With the well-meaning but unhelpful ship's steward,...
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Henry Pifield Rice is a detective, technically. He prides himself in his disguises, which are, in truth, pretty deplorable. So when he's detailed to follow a touring theatrical romantic comedy, his life is absolutely transformed.
P.G. Wodehouse had the rare gift of writing humor that stands the test of time. Most famous for his Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels, he also a talented playwright and lyricist, and worked with Cole Porter on Anything Goes,...
91) Cats
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A series of stories and poems about cats from some of the best classic and modern authors. Read by Richard Griffiths and Liza Goddard, this is a true celebration of the nation's favourite pet.
FULL TITLE LISTING:
The Story Of Webster by P.G. Wodehouse
The Foolhardy Mouse & The Cautious Cat by James Thurber
Tobermory by Saki
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
My Cat Jeoffrey from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart
The Cat That Walked By...
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Magic Lamp Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"P.G. Wodehouse, famous humorist/screenwriter (creator of Jeeves and Wooster) and 'golf-nut,' provides us with a group of humorous stories about the game of golf, allegedly having been told by a fictitious golf club's 'eldest member,' as he holds court at the 19th hole. This book is the perfect read and/or gift for any golfer."--
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W.J. Watt and Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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- If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landmark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which they had assigned to Mrs Elmer Ford, late of New York, they might well have felt a little aggrieved. Philosophers among them would possibly have meditated on the limitations of human effort; for they had done their best for Mrs Ford. They had housed her well. They had fed her...
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Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Students of the folklore of the United States of America are no doubt familiar with the quaint old story of Clarence MacFadden. Clarence MacFadden, it seems, was "wishful to dance, but his feet wasn't gaited that way. So he sought a professor and asked him his price, and said he was willing to pay. The professor" (the legend goes on) "looked down with alarm at his feet and marked their enormous expanse; and he tacked on a five to his regular price...
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Herbert Jenkins
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Sally Nicholas is a young, pretty, and popular American woman who lives in a boarding house in New York and works as a taxi dancer. Upon reaching her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a considerable fortune. Sally tries to adjust to her new life, but financial and romantic problems beset her until a happy ending ensues.
96) Jeeves Stories
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Standard Ebooks
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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A collection of short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster and the upperclass English life of the early 1900s.
97) The Gold Bat
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A & C Black
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, the novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of a local politician as a prank. They get away with it, but O'Hara had borrowed a tiny gold cricket bat belonging to Trevor, the captain of the cricket team. After the prank, the boys discover that the trinket is missing. Schoolboy honour is at stake as Trevor and his friends conceal the loss of the gold bat until, through...
98) School Stories
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Standard Ebooks
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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School Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the trials, tribulations and adventures of the denizens of the turn-of-the-century English boarding school.
First published in schoolboy magazines starting in 1901, the stories originally appeared in publications like The Captain and Public School Magazine.
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Floating Press, The
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Craving the kind of knee-slapping shenanigans that only P.G. Wodehouse can deliver? Dive into The Girl on the Boat, an uproarious tale of romantic entanglement that unfolds against the backdrop of a trans-Atlantic ocean cruise. First published in serial format under title Three Men and a Maid, this novel offers Wodehouse fans a much-needed dose of the writer's inimitable humor.
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Methuen & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Man Upstairs is a collection of witty and romantic short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine (Sherlock Homes) in the UK and Collier's Weekly in the United States.There were three distinct stages in the evolution of Annette Brougham's attitude towards the knocking in the room above. In the beginning it had been merely a vague discomfort. Absorbed in the composition of her...