Anthologies
A collection of fourteen classic animal stories featuring “Monkey Business, “Ukridge’s Dog College,” “Open House,” and others from the comic master. Fans already familiar with Wodehouse the Connoisseur of Country Houses or Wodehouse the Golfing Enthusiast have a real and unexpected treat in store for them in this remarkable anthology, which highlights a previously overlooked Wodehouse—the Keen Animal Observer, a Wodehouse worthy of a special place of honor. Since the collection contains some of his very best stories, it will also serve as a delightful introduction to his complete oeuvre as well as to his natural history.
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.
Gathers Sherlock Holmes stories by Poul Anderson, Anthony Boucher, John Dickson Carr, Philip Jose Farmer, H.R.F. Keating, Stephen Leacock, John Lennon, and P.G. Wodehouse
Oh the weather outside is frightful, so draw up a chair to the fire (an electric heater will do), get the chestnuts roasting, and conjure some festive feeling with the help of this seasonal selection. On Christmas Eve it is traditional to scare yourself witless with ghost stories - classics from Edith Wharton and M.R. James should get you started. Diary entries both real and imagined reveal innocent Christmases past, while tales from P.G. Wodehouse and Damon Runyon show the singular workings of the yuletide spirit. Go carolling with Laurie Lee and the animals of The Wind in the Willows, meet some unruly relations courtesy of Stella Gibbons and Nancy Mitford, feast on Christmas geese and puddings zestfully imagined by Dickens and Edith Nesbit, while O. Henry and John Cheever ruminate on the nature of gift-giving. As the fire is slowly dying, bittersweet and comical Christmas memories from Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas draw your seasonal reading to a close.
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [Edwin Abbott Abbott] Lady Susan [Jane Austen] R. Holmes & Co. [John Kendrick Bangs] Mrs. Raffles [John Kendrick Bangs] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Mirror of Kong Ho [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Ghost-Extinguisher [Frank Gelett Burgess] Erewhon, or Over The Range [Samuel Butler] Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [James Branch Cabell] Sylvie and Bruno [Lewis Carroll] The Napoleon of Notting Hill [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton [Wardon Allan Curtis] Our Mutual Friend [Charles Dickens] Brother Jacob [George Eliot] Cheerful—By Request [Edna Ferber] Cabbages and Kings [O. Henry] Crome Yellow [Aldous Huxley] All Roads Lead to Calvary [Jerome Klapka Jerome] Babbitt [Sinclair Lewis] Parnassus On Wheels [Christopher Morley] Beasts and Super-Beasts [Saki] A Tale of Negative Gravity [Frank R. Stockton] Gulliver's Travels [Jonathan Swift] Botchan [Natsume Sōseki] A Voyage to the Moon [George Tucker] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain] The Wheels of Chance [H. G. Wells] The Canterville Ghost [Oscar Wilde] My Man Jeeves [P. G. Wodehouse]