B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Upstairs - format MP3

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

¿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,...

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,...

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...

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...

Torturado por hermanas, sobrinos y demás parientes que desean que participe más activamente en la vida familiar, Lord Emsworth se refugia en su lectura favorita, un manual sobre la crianza del cerdo....

Una vez más, en el castillo de Blandings se ha reunido la flor y nata de los petimetres. Los que son y los que lo fueron. Monty Bodkin y Ronnie Fish constituyen una dignísima representación de la nueva...

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....

El cortejo al que Monty Bodkin tenía sometida a Gertrude Butterwick a bordo de Atlantic no iba precisamente viento en popa. Y toda la culpa la tenía Lotus Blossom, la estrella más rutilante del firmamento...

"Far from here, in the land the swallows flee to in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa." So begins the story of Elisa and her brothers. At the beginning, everything was...

The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief. Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately...

In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals....

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in...

Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody...

"Darklands" is Niels Krause-Kjær’s independent sequel to the filmed bestselling novel "Solitaire". Suspicion of fraud at the highest level turns out to have threads reaching far into Danish democracy....

Hurlingham House school is a high-achiever’s heaven, full of happy, hard-working pupils. There’s just the small matter of the dead body on the field... Sounds like a case for Epiphany Bloom! When Epiphany...

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, CH, KBE , usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was...

This is a wonderfully written novel by Mrs. Hungerford about the perennial bachelor and the various interests in his life, where he is a doctor by trade. From taking care of his sister's children to a...

Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. Dudley answers the summons, only to find himself immediately...

J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom...

A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarrassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions.

Merlin. King Arthur. War betwixt British and Saxons. Uther Pendragon. Collapsing castle foundations, Magicians and spirits, and fighting dragons and a blazing comet. Good entertaining stuff. But is it...

The Essential Classics: Volume 4 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Fenella Woolgar, Jonathan Keeble, Lucy Scott, David Rintoul, and...

Octavius Everard, the wealthy Duke of Eccess, indulges in London's most decadent offerings to escape the pain that haunts him—especially at Christmas. The richest food, the best cognac and the most beautiful...

'The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.' First published in various newspapers from 1833 to 1836, before Dickens's fame skyrocketed, Sketches of Boz was reissued...

Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a few marks or...

Easter 1903. In the slums of London, French prostitutes are found crucified. Mysterious messages are discovered in the clothing of the victims. These crucifixion murders cause an international sensation...

The master detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson explore a mysterious cornfield and stumble upon the trail of a gigantic conspiracy. Find out more about the Freemason Society in this new chapter of...

A heartwarming tale, set against the stunning Welsh coast, from the Amazon bestselling author of The Forgotten Farmhouse by the Sea.When single mother Seren Evans returns to Anglesey with her young daughter...

When a New York City literary agent returns to her small hometown to bury her father, murder is the one plot twist she didn’t see coming. Allie Cobb thought she’d left Rushing Creek, Indiana, behind for...

"Rarely has an author painted the great American West in strokes so bold, vivid, and true." --Ralph ComptonOrphaned by a brutal attack, Cody Hunter was raised by Crow Indians in Yellowstone, Montana,...

Love, laughs, and romantic chaos—Austen style.Sophie Johnson thought she had it all: her dream job at The Jane Austen Dating Agency and a swoon-worthy boyfriend, Darcy Drummond. But real life isn’t quite...

Murder was never supposed to be in the script...Sophie “Phee” Kimball is trying hard to get work done at her private investigation company—especially now that her old crush has joined the team. But her...

A young Black man rises from the brutal depths of slavery to deliver a long-overdue reckoning in this relentless Western classic. Justice has a new name: El Diablo Negrito—and if you’ve wronged him or...

Meet your new favourite girl-next-door, Faye. An underachieving PA with a passion for pasta, she’s spent her life in London’s leafy Hampstead, disconnected from her heritage. Dismissed as a “cultural...

Can stepping out of your comfort zone lead to unexpected happiness?Trudy Watts has it all: a dream job, a successful fiancé, and a glamorous London lifestyle. With a big promotion on the horizon and her...

On an inherited ranch in Northern California, one family is discovering all the possibilities life can offer—and the kind of love that will outlast even the land... Angela Dalton’s return to Dry Creek...

Tressa Buckland is perfectly content with her quiet life in the seaside village of Port Lowdy, where colourful cottages overlook the sea and her only constant companion is her cat, Ginger Pickles. Working...

The endless green of the Scottish hills should be the perfect place to hide Liz Parsons’s secrets.After a devastating loss and break-up, Liz takes a job running the tiny Loch Cameron Whisky Distillery,...