The Man With Two Left Feet - formato ePub

La creación más querida de P. G. Wodehouse es el tándem del amo y el sirviente formado por Bertie Wooster, afable y bobalicón, y Jeeves, su ayuda de cámara y protector. Éste es un primer Ómnibus Jeeves,...

Es verano en el castillo de sir Buckstone Abbott, y el buen tiempo enciende las pasiones: Joe Vanringham –más conocido como Tubby– languidece por Imogene Abbott –más conocida como Jane–, quien a su vez...

La luna llena brilla sobre las almenas y torres del castillo de Blandings, y alborota los corazones de algunos de los invitados del conde de Emsworth. Entre ellos están el coronel Wedge y su guapa hija...

El enamoradizo Bingo Little, amigo de Bertie, ha hecho una vez más honor a su fama. Esta vez el objeto de sus desvelos es Mabel, camarera en un restaurante de poca fama. Y como suele suceder con Bingo,...

En De acuerdo, Jeeves, los conocimientos del tímido Gussie Fink-Nottle sobre las salamandras son tan vastos como su ignorancia sobre las mujeres. Y precisamente una de ellas, Madeline Bassett, es el origen...

¿Qué nos propone el inefable Wodehouse en estos desternillantes relatos? Nada más ni nada menos que una visita al Club de los Zánganos. En sus elegantes salones encontraremos a la flor y nata de los pisaverdes,...

Todo comenzó una hermosa mañana, cuando Bertie Wooster, cegado por el júbilo que le producía la bondad del clima, aceptó pasar unos días lejos del mundanal ruido, en Steeple Bumpleigh. No sabía el muy...

Los Gedge viven en un pueblecito idílico, y en una mansión no menos maravillosa. Lo que no saben es que dos ladrones de guante muy blanco codician sus diamantes. La señora Gedge, por su parte, ambiciona...

Los libros de Wodehouse son magníficos ejemplos del mejor humor inglés, y Tío Fred en primavera es una de sus mejores obras. El personaje que le da título es un viejo loco que aprovecha los ocasionales...

Publicada para conmemorar el 25.º aniversario de la muerte de P. G. Wodehouse, ésta es la primera gran antología de su obra que conocerá la presente generación. Cuenta con una introducción de Stephen...

Gussie Fink-Nottle se siente mucho más cómodo con las salamandras que con los hombres. El tímido joven las colecciona, se deleita contemplándolas, las estudia y hasta elabora complejas teorías sobre ellas....

Cuando el riquísimo Alfred Cork murió, dejó toda su fortuna a su mujer, que había sido una famosa actriz del cine mudo. Pero en el testamento había una cláusula:  Adela, la viuda, tenía que mantener de...

Cuando la riquísima Eugenia Van Brunt se casó con Bingley Crocker, un actor de quinta fila, Jimmy, el hijo de Crocker, más conocido como Piccadilly Jim, se despidió de su trabajo. ¿Por qué habría de malgastar...

Psmith ha renunciado a su puesto de secretario de un opulento tío, simplemente porque no soportaba el olor a pescado que despedía el lucrativo negocio de este, y ahora se ofrece públicamente para cualquier...

Cuando Bertie Wooster va a pasar unos días con su tía Dahlia en Brinkley Court y se encuentra de súbito prometido a la imperiosa Lady Florence Craye, la amenaza del desastre se cierne sobre todo y todos....

Cuando el increíble Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge visita a su amigo, el escritor Jeremías Garnet, y le anuncia que ha iniciado la explotación de una granja avícola y ha designado a Garnet como jefe...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...