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A P.G. Wodehouse novel Lady Maud, the spirited young daughter of the Earl of Marshmoreton, is confined to her home, Belpher Castle in Hampshire, under aunt's orders because of an unfortunate infatua……続きを見る

If you pick up Mike and Psmith and expect it to be like the wacky comedies that Wodehouse composed in the 20s and 30s, you might be slighted disappointed. This is early Wodehouse, a Wodehouse concer……続きを見る

Sam Thompson thinks her problems stem from an unrequited crush on her roommate, Nita Perez, until she and her best friend, Jamie Carpenter, are involved in a near accident while looking for Dr. Juli……続きを見る

Jaunty is a young centaur who longs to be a warrior. Will his dream come true? Or will his destiny be very different? 続きを見る

Frances Wiseman’s first six years were filled with fear and sleepless nights. Halten, the mining village where she lived, housed not just a working coalmine, but also an armaments factory within its……続きを見る

Mrs. Lora Delane Porter, that great woman, was condescending to argue with Herbert Nixon, a mere menial. The points under discussion were three:ー (a) Why had Herbert been absent from duty between t……続きを見る

Pillingshot was annoyed. He was disgusted, mortified; no other word for it. He had no objection, of course, to Mr Mellish saying that his work during the term, and especially his Livy, had been disg……続きを見る

Sixteen short stories from acclaimed author Geoffrey Household. First published in 1958, this collection of short stories is a snapshot of Household's great skill as a storyteller. Despite vastly di……続きを見る

The sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in Piccadilly its heartening warmth seemed to infuse into traffic and pedestrians alike a novel jauntiness, so that bus driv……続きを見る

Then you offer me no hope, Doctor? The gray mane of Doctor Samuel Ward waved like a fighting crest as he made answer: "Not the sort of hope you ask." A moment later he added: "John, I am ashamed of ……続きを見る

Right Ho, Jeeves is a romantic written by P. G. Wodehouse and first published in 1922. When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and false beard to win over soppy Ma……続きを見る

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 compo……続きを見る

A Golf collection From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher's fifth wife and a not……続きを見る

The Mesnevi and the Acts of the Adepts tr. by James W. Redhouse The Mesnevi (usually known as the Mesneviyi, or Holy Mesnevi) of Mevlana (our Lord) Jelalu-d'-Din, Muhammed, er-Rumi, Book the First: ……続きを見る

BILL THE BLOODHOUND There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry Pifield Rice, detective. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detect……続きを見る

This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretar……続きを見る

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird ……続きを見る

We had arrived at Marvis Bay, and were to play the last match of our tour on the following morning. Marvis Bay is in Devonshire. We always take it last on our fixture-list, so as to end happily, as ……続きを見る

The painful case of G. Montgomery Chapple, bachelor, of Seymour's house, Wrykyn. Let us examine and ponder over it. It has been well said that this is the age of the specialist. Everybody, if they w……続きを見る

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 pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ……続きを見る

OF all the Egyptian religious beliefs that existed from the Prehistoric period down into Roman times, the oldest and the one most held in veneration was that connected with the worship of Osiris, Is……続きを見る

AFTER THE OTTER (By our Confirmed Grumbler) The visitor gives his cap a hitch to one side to indicate the sportsman, grasps his hazel walking-stick (white crooked handle and spike complete for eight……続きを見る

Will’s garden is home to a secret, a magical world that no one but him is even aware exists. When whispers of a faerie queen reach his ears, he cannot know just how a part of that world he will soon……続きを見る

EPISODE 6 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS GALAHAD AT BLANDINGS With the arrival of sophisticated widow, Daphne, and her spoi……続きを見る

From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, ……続きを見る

I believe this story to be fictitious. It was told me by a man, a perfect stranger, whose eye gleamed with untruthfulness. He told it to me in the knowledge that I would be unable to take any steps ……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Gem Collector. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by P. G. Wodehouse, which i……続きを見る

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author, best known for writing western stories. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa, and graduated from the University ……続きを見る

Mr. Jeremy Garnet stood with his back to the empty grateーfor the time was summerーwatching with a jaundiced eye the removal of his breakfast things. "Mrs. Medley," he said. "Sir?" "Would it bore yo……続きを見る

EPISODE 1 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS Clarence has to get his pig eating again or lose the fat-pig prize to his arch nemesis. Lord Clarence Emsw……続きを見る