A Wodehouse Miscellany - formato ePub

The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is...

Six early (1914) shorts, written in collaboration with C.H. Bovill: - The Episode of the Landlady's Daughter / The Landlady's Daughter - The Episode of the Financial Napoleon / The Bolt from the Blue...

This collection of short stories is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes his first appearance with these unremarkable words: "Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir." Years later, when...

It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From...

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 Princes"...

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 of...

Written when he was 25, Love Among the Chickens launched P.G. Wodehouse's career as a novelist and introduced the world to Ukridge, one of his most extraordinary inventions. Robert McCrum's introduction...

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 unlikely...

A collection of wonderful articles, poems, and stories by that master of comedy and complications, P. G. Wodehouse, the author of My Man Jeeves. Includes "Some Aspects of Game-Captaincy," "An Unfinished...

Mike Jackson, cricketer and scion of a cricketing clan, has dreams of Cambridge upset by father's financial troubles, sent under Manager Bickersdyke to New Asiatic Bank. Thankfully fellow cricketer PSmith...

The Girl on the Boat features red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening...

Ashe was reading listlessly down the column when, from the mass of advertisements, one of an unusual sort detached itself. WANTED: Young Man of good appearance, who is poor and reckless, to undertake...

In the British tradition, a white feather has long been a symbol of cowardice or pusillanimity in battle or when facing adversity. In The White Feather, Wodehouse applies this metaphor to the dog-eat-dog...

Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue when the hapless Bertie Wooster falls into trouble. My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste...

Sir James Willoughby Pitt and Spike share a common but dark history-one in which both were jewel thieves. While Pitt has reformed, however, Spike still has quite a taste for mischief. When the two men...

A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday Evening Post, between May and June that year. Golf-loving American composer George Bevan falls in...

In the high-stakes world of political campaigns, where ambition runs as deep as the divides between party lines, love is the most dangerous game of all.Olivia Harrington, a sharp and ambitious journalist,...

We have at times been accused of putting so many people into our books that no one can remember who they are, in which stricture we entirely concur, as we often cannot remember who they are ourself (or...

Can a runaway bride find a second chance at happiness with the one that got away, her first love? When a blizzard strands recently-branded 'runaway bride' Rose Keating on the side of the road with the...

Animals are speaking. Who is Listening? When Quinby Clark has a conversation with a bird, she thinks she's going crazy. But when a dog invites her to attend a mysterious Australian boarding school for...

Every campfire story has an origin; a shadow on the water, a sound in the dark, a tragedy with no explanation. The legend of Camp Alkali is no different. Stories have been woven over the years about a...

After learning about her otherworldly ancestry, a young woman is swept up in a war that started long before she was born— the war that killed her father, a Seelie Gatekeeper. Hoping to understand her...

"Unlock the Secrets of Paradise" In a world where myth and reality blur, a young girl discovers the hidden gateway into the Garden of Eden. With the guidance of a spirit soul from within the Garden. She...

Family secrets hold the key to buried magic. Her legacy awaits. Katelyn Grey is a gardener in Southern California. She's content with pruning shrubs and looking after her step-mom, the only family she...

It will not, we hope, surprise our readers to hear that Lady Cora Waring, formerly Lady Cora Palliser, only daughter of the Duke of Omnium, wife of Sir Cecil Waring of Beliers Priory, was expecting what...

After being Ms. Zi Wei and being on the planet that a mysterious race of people cannot breath on, the enemy calls her the soul swallower. Archibald von Kitari, the wizard, and Tartu von Greenbird, the...

For millennia, Tol has known peace, but now ancient fears resurface as the northern empire of Nordinium invades the Southlands. Amidst the chaos, two young orphans, Perrin and Bren, are thrust into a...

The first lesson Eilean MacAlistair learned in blacksmithing: First, you harden, and then you temper.Otherwise, your metal will break.The same is true with life. A few years back, Eilean didn't temper...

Being dead never felt so good...Silver's memories are gone, but that's the way death usually goes. You wake up by the Styx, you realize you're dead, you pick a name, and you pay Charon for a ride across...

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...

1837. At the Graduation Ball of Miss Debenham's Finishing School, the Husband Hunters Club is formed. Livy Monteith is as strong-willed as she is beautiful, and she refuses to wed the man of her parents'...

13 tales of pure Adventure.Action-Adventure tales to lead you to places you've never been — and hope you make it back.Make a wildfire your ally. Tread softly with the French Resistance during WWII. Extract...

"Sherlock Holmes and the Prophets of the Bible Elohim"Prepare for a revolutionary literary experience that dares to challenge centuries of religious and historical assumptions. In this provocative work...

Here are ten really short stories from my imagination. There contain some saddness, some happiness, some hope, some dispair and some advertures included in these stories. I hope you are entertainied by...

Terri's life is turned upside down in the gripping conclusion to the "This Love is Real" series. Without recollection of the past year, she is thrust into a world of uncertainty and heartache. Terri's...

Welcome to Cole County, where we bring you the best of all worlds: city living in Carruthersville, mountain views from Slate Ridge, sandy beaches along Lake Boulder, and quaint towns filled with family-owned...

After years of living in Vermont, Lauren is at the Jersey shore for the summer after a devastating divorce, and her house rental appears to be anything but luxurious.Lauren hasn't been back to Ocean City,...

A collection of 15 dark stories with twists and turns from flash fiction to poetry and a short story!The darker side of what happens if you just . . . shouldn't. But really, wouldn't you try . . .Using...

Desert. Sun. Sand. No roads or human settlements within fifty miles in any direction. The perfect place to found a town? That's what Steve Ragsdale believed. So he and his wife bundled up their four kids...

Stories You Read in the Dark is a collection of three short horror stories that are perfect to read at nights. These stories includes a young boy conquering a witch, a demon escaping prison time, and...

Adam Perdue finds people no one really wants found, in places nobody else wants to look. When Michele Rathborn vanishes from the streets of Orman, her brothers hire him so they can challenge the will...

A fan chasing her dreamThe idol she worships from afarAnd the magical adventure which brings them togetherRachel has the best night of her life at Sasin's mind-blowing concert. The show is a wild ride...

What would it be like to travel back in time?You are about to discover when you read 'Other Times', written as if you are entering an earlier time. You will go with John Wallen, his son Jimmy, and Jimmy's...

     Helena Simpson was a shy, demure woman who found solace in the gentle art of sewing children's clothing. From her modest shop back East, she would meticulously craft each garment with loving care,...

A collection of short horror stories    These are the summaries of each story as well as the order they come in    Creatures from the Dirt -  They discover a nest of half human half insects in their basement....

A contemporary romance book focusing on Priya and Aiden, two students both at the most exclusive university in the world, one of privilege and one with none as they make their way through their years.Priya...