
“The Code of the Woosters”, first published in 1938, is the first part of the Totleigh Towers saga by the English author P. G. Wodehouse. In this story Jeeves has to do his best to rescue his young employer Bertram Wooster from the mess in which
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Bertram Wooster likes too much his new playful Tirol hat. However, Jeeves is on a different opinion. This trifle will cool their interrelations. But when Bertram went to the estate Totleigh Towers, he quickly made a mess and had to seek help from
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England, noblemen and a strange story about a midget. Jokes, murders and erections. No-one else but the famous San Antonio could invent such a criminal, obscene and funny
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THE Duke of Dunstable was a nobleman of proud and haughty spirit, swift to resent affronts and institute reprisals —the last person in the world, in short, from whom one could hope to withhold pigs with impunity. Yet the Earl of Emsworth, faced by
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This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings
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Bertram Wooster’s manservant, Jeeves, is renowned for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie’s friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves’s fame, decides to step in
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Rough, ironic, uncompromising laughter. This seems to be the first reaction of every average reader, after reading a few lines of “History of France”. But this book is more complicated and poly-semantic, addressed to those, who can laugh
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The unique heroes of Wodehouse will again provoke laugh with the twists and turns of their
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Those who have read "Jill the Reckless' in serial form on both sides of the Atlantic, pronounce it to be P. G. W.'s masterpiece, just as P.G.W. is Nature's masterpiece among writers of humour. One correspondent wrote to the editor of Collier's
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Part Bill Bryson and part David Sedaris, this witty and hilarious novel by the German cult author Wladimir Kaminer also has a Russian soul. It consists of five linked stories in which the narrator - born and raised in the former USSR and now
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To the majority of the passengers aboard the R.M.S. "Atlantic" the voyage to America was just a pleasant interlude in life's hectic rush. But not so to Monty Bodkin. Monty's wooing of Gertrude Butterwick was not progressing as it should, and the
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When Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge descends upon his author friend, Jeremy Garnet, and announces that he, S.F.U., has started a chicken-farm and that Garnet is to be the chief, we know that there is to be "dirty work at the cross-roads". To
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When Gussie Fink-Nottle, after a convivial evening with "Catsmeat" Pirbright, was sentenced to fourteen days without the option of wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, Bertie Wooster saw the red light. For Gussie was an expected guest at
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