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Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979-04-01
Category : Humorous stories, English.
ISBN : 0826401597
The legendary novella The Swoop, a comic masterpiece describing a starcrossed invasion of England, is combined with other humorous Wodehouse tales that have been unavailable for many years
Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : British literature
ISBN : UOM:39015002639857
Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775450863
Only a comic genius of the magnitude of P.G. Wodehouse could take a weighty subject like war and turn it into a rib-tickling joyride. The Swoop! is an account of a fictionalized invasion of England by several enemy armies -- and of the indomitable Boy Scout leader who uses psychological warfare to turn the leaders of the invading forces against one another.
Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1406550892
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (1881-1975) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. Wodehouse was admired both by contemporaries like Rudyard Kipling as well as by modern writers like Terry Pratchett. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes. His other works include: A Prefect's Uncle (1903), Tales of St. Austin's (1903), The Gold Bat (1904), The Head of Kay's (1905), Love Among the Chickens (1906), The White Feather (1907), Mike (1909), Psmith, Journalist (1909), Psmith in the City (1910), The Little Nugget (1913), Something New (1915), The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories (1917), Piccadilly Jim (1917), A Damsel in Distress (1919), Indiscretions of Archie (1921) and The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922).
Author : James Macdonald Oxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547106517
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Strange Rescue and other stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada" by James Macdonald Oxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035982029
Author : Matthew Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1775437647
Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771075469
A dozen of the very best mystery stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, including one brand new Inspector Banks story. Best known — and much admired — for his long-running and bestselling Inspector Banks series, Peter Robinson is also widely and highly praised by mystery mavens for his riveting short stories. Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the twelve stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves — these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is.
Author : John Jr. Fox
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547312499
It was Christmas Eve on Lonesome. But nobody on Lonesome knew that it was Christmas Eve, although a child of the outer world could have guessed it, even out in those wilds where Lonesome slipped from one lone log cabin high up the steeps, down through a stretch of jungled darkness to another lone cabin at the mouth of the stream. There was the holy hush in the gray twilight that comes only on Christmas Eve. There were the big flakes of snow that fell as they never fall except on Christmas Eve. There was a snowy man on horseback in a big coat, and with saddle-pockets that might have been bursting with toys for children in the little cabin at the head of the stream.
Author : Judith A. Lewis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595888436
A BOLD WALKABOUT ACROSS THE LAND OF VISION, IMAGINATION, AND REALITY "The stories in this book are a combination of my imagination, vision, and experiences and contacts," writes storyteller Judith A. Lewis about this compelling collection of 65 stories about the Australian Outback, the Pacific, India, and traveling. "They came to me in vivid detail and I felt compelled to share these insights into a richer way of looking at our relationship to the Earth." Her theme is the journey, across landscapes, through cultures, or into the vivid realms of visionary experience. Lewis writes evocatively about traveling, in spirit and body, across Aboriginal and cultural terrains, from meeting kangaroo spirits to long-lost fathers. But she writes with equal insight and warmth about the enigmas of the heart, its secrets, joys, aspirations, and epiphanies. A twelve-year-old girl survives an illness by communing with the waratah in bloom. A traveler in Bombay is arrested by beauty amidst the frenetic urban haze. Two twins separated in early childhood journey towards each other. A homeless man constantly walks the highways to bury his past. An Aboriginal medicine man named Waramingo meets the Dreamtime ancestors. "A lot of the visionary stories pertain to the land and its secrets and those who visit it from afar," Lewis says. "I believe that the Earth is alive and awaiting our recognition as are the other dimensions that we all could inhabit. I hope my stories help you remember what you already know, that there is no separation, that everything, from stones to stars, is part of us on this lovely planet."
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486841694
Although better known today for his novels, in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald ranked among the top writers of magazine fiction. Fitzgerald represented the dreams and aspirations of the post-World War I generation in his life as well as his works. With his glamorous wife, Zelda, and his cosmopolitan social circle, he projected the perfect image for narrating tales of restless youth in a hectic world. These short stories offer insights into many themes, characters, and techniques that emerged in Fitzgerald's later works. The title tale, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," reflects his preoccupation with life's fleeting nature. "Winter Dreams," written three years before The Great Gatsby, shares the concept of commitment to an idealized dream. "Babes in the Woods," developed during the author's Princeton days, evidences the roots of This Side of Paradise. Thirteen other selections offer further insights into the author's growing skills as well as examples of his sparkling prose, understated wit, and deft characterizations.
Author : Gerald Duff
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603062107
Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like.” This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story “Fire Ants.”
Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783963767722
I first met Césarine Vivian in the stalls at the Ambiguities Theatre. I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which were then being acted by Marie Leroux's celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn't at the time exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn't engaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalent to an understood engagement. We had known one another intimately from childhood upward, for the Lathams were a sort of second cousins of ours, three times removed: and we had always called one another by our Christian names, and been very fond of one another in a simple girlish and boyish fashion as long as we could either of us remember. Still, I maintain, there was no definite understanding between us; and if Mrs. Latham thought I had been paying Irene attentions, she must have known that a young man of two and twenty, with a decent fortune and a nice estate down in Devonshire, was likely to look about him for a while before he thought of settling down and marrying quietly.
Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1494964392
The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesA Collection of Short StoriesBy P. G. WodehouseThe Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London.[1] Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United States. Although the book was not published in the US, many of the stories were eventually made available to US readers in The Uncollected Wodehouse (1976) and The Swoop! and Other Stories (1979)It is a miscellaneous collection, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters; most of the stories concern love and romance.
Author : Irving Shulman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595009954
These nine stories—many of them in novella length—display the entire scope of The Amboy Dukes, author Irving Shulman's unique style. Each offers a highly individual look at a segment of experience—caught mercilessly, ruthlessly explored, and with overtones that echo long after the reader has reached the end of the last page. Titles include: “Tears to Drown the Wind,” “Every Job's an Education” and “Your Hands Entrap my Quivering Heart”.