WODEHOUSE P.G.

(P/B) VERY GOOD, JEEVES
An outstanding collection of Jeeves stories, every one a winner, in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction: By saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doom... By rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each)... By arranging rather too many performances of the song 'Sonny Boy' to a not very appreciative audience... And by a variety of other sparkling stratagems that should reduce you to helpless laughter. This early colle...
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(P/B) JOY IN THE MORNING
Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fianc? 'Stilton' Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified. For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love and avoid the...
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ΚΛΕΦΤΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΜΙΑ ΝΥΧΤΑ
Ο Τζίμι Πιτ είναι ένας πλούσιος, όμορφος και προπάντων εξαιρετικά έντιμος νέος. Κι όμως συλλαμβάνεται επ' αυτοφώρω σαν διαρρήκτης στο σπίτι του αστυνομικού διευθυντή της Νέας Υόρκης, το φοβερό και τρομερό Μακίτσερν. Τα πράγματα περιπλέκονται ακόμα περισσότερο όταν ο Τζίμι ανακαλύπτει πως η αξιολάτρευτη Μόλι, η κοπέλα που του έχει πάρει τα μυαλά, είναι η κόρη του περί ου ο λόγος αστυνομικού. Και το μπλέξιμο συνεχίζεται, ακόμα πιο έντονο, σ' έναν πύργο στην Αγγλία, όπου, εντελώς τυχαία, συγκεντρώνονται όλοι οι ήρωές μας και κάποιοι άλλοι, α...
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(P/B) CARRY ON, JEEVES
A collection of ten uproarious short stories. From the moment Jeeves cures Bertie of a raging hangover with his own concoction of Worcestershire sauce and tomato juice, they become steadfast partners. Whether it is fixing a plan-gone-wrong, or solving his friends' love lives, Jeeves is Bertie's unfaltering aide through a series of accidental - and self-imposed - misadventures. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) JEEVES AND THE YULE-TIDE SPIRIT
"Does one desire the Yule-tide spirit, sir?" "Certainly one does. I am all for it." Aunts, engagements, misunderstandings and hangover cures; this delightful collection from `the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness' (Julian Fellowes) brings together a baker's dozen of P. G. Wodehouse's finest short stories. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) JEEVES IN THE OFFING
Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop. With all occasions informing against hi...
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(P/B) YOUNG MEN IN SPATS
Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through rather than round Marble Arch. These wonderful comic short stories are the essence of innocent fun. In them you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favourite characters - including, for the first time, his future hero Uncle Fred. The collection is widely regarded as one of Wodehouse's best and includes one of ...
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(P/B) THANK YOU, JEEVES
'I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.' The odds are stacked against Chuffy when he falls head over heels for American heiress Pauline Stoker. Who better to help him win her over but Jeeves, the perfect gentleman's gentleman. But when Bertie, Pauline's ex-fianc? finds himself caught up in the fray, much to his consternation, even Jeeves struggles to get Chuffy his fairy-tale ending. (From...
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(P/B) A PELICAN AT BLANDINGS
A Blandings novel Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits. Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery surv...
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GOODBYE TO ALL CATS

(P/B) AUNTS AREN'T GENTLEMEN
Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country. But after moving with Jeeves to his cottage at Maiden Eggesford, Bertie soon finds himself surrounded by aunts - not only his redoubtable Aunt Dahlia but an aunt of Jeeves's too. Add a hyper-sensitive racehorse, a very important cat and a decidedly bossy fianc?e - and all the ingredients are present for a plot in which aunts can exert their terrible authority. But Jeeves, of course, can cope with everything - even aunts,...
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(P/B) THE MATING SEASON
At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Bertie is of course one of nature's gentlemen, but the stakes are high: if all is revealed, there's a danger that Gussie's simpering fianc?e Madeline may turn her wide eyes on Bertie ...
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(P/B) RIGHT HO, JEEVES
Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels that the stars are God's daisy chain, his tongue is tied in reef-knots. And his chum Tuppy Glossop isn't getting on much better with Madeline's delectable friend Angela. With so many broken hearts lying about him, Bertie Wooster can't sit idly by. The happiness of a pa...
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(P/B) THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS
A Jeeves and Wooster novel When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd 'Stinker' Pinker and Stiffy Byng - and confound the insane ambitions of would-be...
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(P/B) STIFF UPPER LIP, JEEVES
Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so he thinks: others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. 'Stinker' Pinker. But there also is Sir Watkyn Bassett J.P., enemy of all the Woosters hold dear, to say nothing of his daughter Madeline and Roderick Spode, now raised to the peerage. And Major Brabazon Pla...
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(P/B) COCKTAIL TIME
An Uncle Fred novel. Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable - but unfortunately things don't end there. The sprightly earl finds that his action has inspired a scandalous bestseller and a film script - but this is as nothing compared with the entangled fates of the couples that surround him. In this delightful novel by the master of comic f...
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PEARLS, GIRLS AND MONTY BODKIN

ΚΕΡΑΥΝΟΣ ΕΝ ΑΙΘΡΙΑ
Παλιά καλή κωμωδία παρεξηγήσεων, χρωματισμένη από σουρεαλιστικό χιούμορ, είναι η ειδικότητα του Πέλαμ Γκρένβιλ Γουντχάους, ο οποίος, ως γνήσιος ήρωας των βιβλίων του, μόλις χρίστηκε ιππότης από τη βασίλισσα της Αγγλίας και απέκτησε ομοίωμα στο μουσείο Τυσώ, απεβίωσε ευτυχής. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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AUNTS AREN'T GENTLEMEN

THANK YOU JEEVES