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Barmy in Wonderland (Everyman)
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A penniless Englishman falls in love with a lively American girl, loses her, finds her again, is rejected, but finally discovers true love with her after many comic adventures. In Barmy in Wonderland this classic plot of 1920s musical comedy, so familiar to Wodehouse from his own stage works, becomes the basis for a brilliant satire on theatrical life. Featuring monstrous producers, vain film stars, impossible critics, temperamental actresses and a whole chorus of sharply drawn minor parts, this is one of Wodehouse’s most enticing later novels.
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The Clicking of Cuthbert (Everyman)
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Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extraced high comedy from the most noble and ancient game of golf? And who else could have combined this comedy with a real appreciation of the game, drawn from personal experience? Wodehouse's brilliant but humane brand of humour is perfectly suited to these stories of love, rivalry, revenge and fulfilment on the links. While the oldest member sits inside the clubhouse quoting Marcus Aurelius on patience and wisdom, outside on the green the strongest human passions burn. All human life is here, from Sandy McHoots, the cocky professional, to shy Ramsden Waters, whose only consolation in life is golf. Even golf-haters will not be able to resist stories which perfectly combine physical farce and verbal wit with a gallery of unforgettable characters.
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Uncle Dynamite (Everyman)
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Although the story of Uncle Dynamite concerns Bill Oakshott's struggle to find ways of getting his girl while financing his inheritance at Ashenden Manor, the real hero of the book is Frederick Altamont Cornwallis, fifth Earl of Ickenham. This noble lord who describes himself as 'one of the hottest earls that ever donned a coronet' was one of his creator's favourite characters, featuring in three other novels. Lord Ickenham sees it as his mission to bring a little joy into the lives of others, and on this occasion he surpasses himself.
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Service with a Smile (Everyman)
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With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by yet another imposter. But Bill Bailey, aka Cuthbert Meriwether, has inveigled himself into the castle to be with his beloved, Myra Schoonmaker, who is staying there under the eagle eye of Lady Constance, and Lady Constance is determined to thwart him. In the end virtue conquers vice: the lovers are united, Dunstable defeated and Tilbury trounced, but only through the brilliant plotting of Frederick, Earl of Ickenham. Everyone is happy who deserves to be, none more so than Lord Emsworth who at one fell swoop is freed from the tyranny of a duke, a secretary and a sister.
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Company for Henry (Everyman)
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Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J. Wendell Stickney. Wendell wishes he could be rid of his embarrassing aunt Kelly, while Kelly wants to escape her financial dependence on Wendell. Henry’s niece, Jane, needs to part from her glamorous but ghastly fiance, Lionel, while Bill Hardy, who falls for Jane, needs no convincing to abandon the bachelor state. Jane’s brother Algy, meanwhile, spends his time thinking up dodgy schemes to lift himself out of poverty. Everything ends happily ever after for most of them, but only when they have been put through the hoops of a classic Wodehouse plot.
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If I Were You (Everyman)
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If I Were You is Wodehouse's comic variation on a favourite theme of Victorian melodrama - the changeling. Did old Nannie Price really substitute her own child for the infant son of the late Lord and Lady Droitwich while they were away in India? If so, Tony Droitwich is heir, not to rolling acres and a stately pile, but to a barber's shop in London's West End. With Socialist Syd Price determined to prove himself the new earl, and Tony's haughty relations determined that he shall not, the stage is set for an amusing battle, waged by a familiar Wodehousean cast of fat butlers, tough aunts, lively American girls and drawling dandies.
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The Heart of a Goof (Everyman)
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In nine of Wodehouse’s ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when he discovers the game, to Rollo Podmarsh, who finishes his round even when he thinks himself fatally poisoned, and Chester Meredith who discovers eloquence on the eighteenth green, we meet the full range of humanity in fair weather and foul.
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Psmith, Journalist (Everyman)
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When two of Wodehouse's favourite early characters, Psmith and Mike, find themselves in New York City, it isn't long before those quintessential Englishmen are involved in the mysteries of American gang warfare. Their adventure begins when they meet the acting editor of Cosy Moments, a sentimental magazine which Psmith transforms into a crusading journal attacking slum landlords. When one of their targets sets the underworld onto them, the fun really takes off. Psmith, Journalist is an extraordinary combination of comedy, adventure story and – unusually in Wodehouse – social comment. There is even a boxing match graphically described. As such, it is unique among his novels in content, but characteristic in wit and entertainment value.
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Over Seventy (Everyman)
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When is an autobiography not an autobiography? When the author is P. G. Wodehouse.
Over Seventy purports to be a series of answers to stray questions about ageing given by a rambling old gentleman full of irrelevant anecdote and wise saws, but when the rambling old gentleman in question happens to be P. G. Wodehouse we know that this persona is a shrewd literary strategy. Underneath the strategy, Wodehouse's feeling for literary form and his nose for comedy are as strong as ever.
Presenting himself as a traditional Englishman who deplores the baring of souls - and doubts if he has a soul of his own to bare - Wodehouse neatly sidesteps difficult biographical questions in favour of self deprecating humour and comic vignette. But if Over Seventy is deliberately evasive, its very discretion tells us a lot more about one of the most celebrated twentieth-century writers. A charming and very funny book which reveals more than it tells.
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The Luck of the Bodkins (Everyman)
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Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus Blossom, who sees in him a means of restoring relations with her idol, the novelist Ambrose Tennyson. But Monty is not the only one with problems. Ambrose's brother Reggie has money troubles and Ikey Llewellyn is struggling with difficulties which would tax anyone's ingenuity, let alone his limited brain power. When the paths of these men collide, the ensuing plot complications produce a vintage Wodehouse farce involving London, New York, Hollywood and translatlantic liners. A delicious period piece from 1935.
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Hot Water (Everyman)
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J. Wellington Gedge seems to have everything a man could desire: a rich wife, a chateau, a life of ease in the south of France. But all he really wants is to return to California, not least because Mrs Gedge, who holds the purse-strings, is scheming to have him appointed as American ambassador in Paris, which means he will have to wear a sissy uniform. Fortunately, her plans are thwarted by a complicated series of events which involves French aristocrats, American crooks, an English novelist and the appalling Senator Opal, whose daughter, Jane, has a mind of her own.
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Piccadilly Jim (Everyman)
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This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as a result, the quest for love leads him to his Aunt Nesta’s house in New York, where his escapades involve impersonating himself and attempting to kidnap Nesta’s odious son Ogden – with the boy demanding a cut of the ransom money. A full flush of minor characters – pretentious poets, butlers, boxers, put-upon husbands and Wall Street businessmen – make the comedy crackle as only Wodehouse knew how.
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A Prefect's Uncle (Everyman)
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The uncle of the title is a mysterious stranger who arrives at Beckford College and turns out to be younger than his nephew, already a prefect at the school. Thus the scene is set for comic confusion and misunderstanding. But the plot is the least interesting part of this charming early book which turns more impressively on a series of sporting events which Wodehouse describes with the perception and panache of an afficionado. An amusing variation on the traditional school story in which the youthful uncle foreshadows both Psmith and Ukridge.
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Sunset at Blandings (Everyman)
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In Wodehouse's final novel, unfinished at his death, the author returns to his favourite part of England. In a classic plot, Vicky Underwood is parted from her fiance, Jeff Bennison, and her uncle, Galahad Threepwood, gamely undertakes to bring them back together.
Many old friends reappear to take their last bow: the Earl of Emsworth, Dame Daphne Winkworth, Beach the butler, the Empress of Blandings (Lord Emsworth's prize pig), Freddie Threepwood (his son), G. Ovens, innkeeper, and an array of the earl's formidable sisters, including newcomers Florence and Diana.
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Mulliner Nights (Everyman)
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Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is a favourite with the accomplished barmaid, Miss Postlethwaite, Mr Mulliner, the narrator of Meet Mr Mulliner, returns for another series of stories about his extraordinary relations, including Lancelot, Adrian, Cyril, Sacheverell, Eustace, Egbert and Augustine Mulliner. In a text teeming with tipsy bishops, angry baronets, lady novelists and haughty dowagers, the Mulliner boys always manage to come out on top.
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Uncle Fred in the Springtime (Everyman)
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‘I don’t know if you happen to know what the word “excesses” means, but these are what Pongo’s Uncle Fred, when in London, invariably commits.’ When the dastardly Duke of Dunstable plots to steal Lord Emsworth’s pig, Empress of Blandings, the wily Uncle Fred - aka the Earl of Ickenham – is called in to thwart him. To that end, the Earl arrives at Blandings Castle under false pretences, posing as pompous 'loony-doctor’ Sir Roderick Glossop, accompanied by two other imposters, one of them the unfortunate Pongo; a bookie turned private detective; an angry sixteen-stone poet; a suspicious dancing secretary, and Lord Emsworth’s pink-faced heir who will keep pointing his gun in the wrong direction. In other words: business as usual in Wodehouse’s enchanted England.
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Bill the Conqueror (Everyman)
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When Bill West of New York falls in love with the statuesque Alice Coker, his promise to look after her dissipated brother Judson has unexpected results. With Judson under his wing, Bill makes for London where he meets Flick Sheridan who, unknown to him, has been in love with Bill for years. But Flick is already promised to the unsatisfactory Roderick Pyke, under pressure from Roderick’s uncle, bullying press magnate Sir George Pyke, while Roderick himself really loves someone else. All is happily resolved in the end, but only after Judson escapes on a monumental bender, Bill and Flick are chased across country in a car by Sir George, Alice breaks the engagement, and Judson decides to give up drink.
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Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (Everyman)
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Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick instead of her. Holding down a job for a year was the condition laid down by Gertrude's father before Monty and Gertrude could be married, a condition Monty has unexpectedly fulfilled by blackmailing Hollywood movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn. Back in England, he intends to claim his bride, but the path to true love never runs smooth, as Monty is about to find out. One of Wodehouse's last novels in which we are reintroduced to a cast of familiar characters in a gentle comic romp.
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Изгнанник (Т8)
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История развития литературы — понятие куда более обширное, чем можно предположить, и куда более сложное, чем может вообразить студент-первокурсник филологического факультета. Неизменно всякий выбор «лучших книг» и «обязательных к прочтению» писателей сопровождается беспощадным отсечением жемчужин мысли от одобренной нормы и «золотого стандарта». За бортом остается множество гениев, признанных и непризнанных, и шедевров мировой литературы. Книги серии «World Classics Books» — попытка расширить устоявшееся в умах понятие классических книг и обязательных для образованного человека авторов, предложив читателю произведения, о которых он либо совсем не слышал, либо знаком очень издалека. Однако представленные в серии труды - в некотором роде веховые этапы на сложном пути развития мировой литературы, без которых трудно составить представления о различных жанрах, литературных школах и целых эпохах развития мировой культуры.
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Fair Margaret & Benita (Т8)
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Fair Margaret tells the inspiring story of a beautiful English maiden named Margaret, who faces hardship during the opening phases of the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400's. As Margaret and her family struggle to live in peace, they soon find themselves in the midst of a series of perilous adventures. Benita bears all the hallmarks of a classic Haggard's story. Readers will be pleased to discover an adventure of the supernatural, lost and hidden peoples and stupendous treasure that is a compelling 'page turner' to its conclusion.
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