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The Politeness of Princes is a collection of School short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. "The Politeness of Princes" is a collection of School short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. "The Politeness of Princ……続きを見る

This volume features some of the most beloved One Thousand and One Nights stories. These original South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales have been translated into English and are accompanied by E……続きを見る

"Princess Badoura: a tale from the Arabian nights" is a 1913 short story written by Laurence Housman and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Based on a tale from "One Thousand and One Nights", this beautif……続きを見る

The story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical……続きを見る

Wodehouse worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand wor……続きを見る

An early Wodehouse novel, this is both a sporting story and a tale of friendship between two boys at boarding school. Mike (introduced in Mike at Wrykyn) is a seriously good cricketer who forms an u……続きを見る

Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. P.G. Wodehouse establishes himself as one of the greatest write……続きを見る

The Coming of Bill (1920) is the nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious novel, although the influence of the musical comedies he was writing at the time is never far away. Bill is the child of Rut……続きを見る

Le titre du roman, Escal-Vigor, désigne un domaine imaginaire situé sur une île mi-celte, mi-germanique, où vient se réfugier Henry de Kehlmark. Héros inhabituel, Henry aime les hommes. À l'Escal-Vi……続きを見る

"Mercy on me, child," she said, "what on earth made you ride up there? Why didn't you get inside?" "I jest wanted to ride by Sam Lamb," replied the child as he was lifted down. "An' I see a nice fat……続きを見る

Piccadilly Jim features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta (both previously encountered in The Little Nugget (1913). Nesta has remarried, to the hen-pecked, baseball-loving millionaire Mr. Peter Pett, ……続きを見る

36 Complete Works of P. G. Wodehouse A Damsel in Distress A Man of Means A Prefect's Uncle Death at the Excelsior Indiscretions Of Archie Jill the Reckless Love Among the Chickens Man With Two Left ……続きを見る

The globetrotting adventures and hilarious hijinks of bon vivant and force of nature Psmith continue in Psmith, Journalist. Psmith and his best friend, a cricket player by the name of Mike Jackson, ……続きを見る

EXTRAIT. MYNHEER BORREKENS... . Vers la fin du mois de juin de l’année 16.., au moment où les cloches de l’église Notre-Dame d’Anvers sonnaient quatre heures du matin, un homme jeune encore entr’ouv……続きを見る

P.G. Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Wodehouse worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneou……続きを見る

My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of them featuring Jeeves and Wooster themselve……続きを見る

Uneasy Money is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 17 March 1916 by D. Appleton & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 4 October 1917 by Methuen & Co., Lo……続きを見る

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete N……続きを見る

The Pothunters is a 1902 novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was Wodehouse's first published novel, and the first of several school stories, this one set at the fictional public school of St. Austin's. The……続きを見る

In order to save his reputation and the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight between fellow pupils and toughs from the local town, a studious schoolboy ……続きを見る

If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he had ever floated, he would be a very rich man indeed. In these ten stories he tries every way of making money, from writing……続きを見る

"'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." ーHarold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Ce jour-là, le 5 juin 1863, mademoiselle Cléopâtre, à peine éveillée, se coucha voluptueusement dans sa victoria attelée en demi-daumont. Il était trois heures ; le soleil, contre son hab……続きを見る

Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, The Gold Bat tells how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the local M.P. as a prank. They get away with it, but O'Hara has borro……続きを見る

The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result……続きを見る

First published in the United States on 4 October 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 15 October 1919. It had previously been serialised in Th……続きを見る

The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns……続きを見る

The heroine here, Jill Mariner, is a sweet-natured and wealthy young woman who, at the opening, is engaged to a knighted MP, Sir Derek Underhill. We follow her through financial disaster, an adventu……続きを見る

Taking place primarily in New York City and then-rural Long Island, the story tells of amiable but hard-up "Bill", Lord Dawlish, who inherits a fortune from a rich American he once helped in golf. W……続きを見る

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 considerab……続きを見る