Wit and Wisdom of P.G.Wodehouse
The Wit and Wisdom of the Master – all compacted into 128 pithy pages! Tony Ring, the president of the Wodehouse Association and author of the 600,000-word Millennium Wodehouse Concordance, has drawn on his extensive...
It seemed an easy job. After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn`t marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city...
The world is changing - the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled...
Ever since Whit and Wisty Allgood were cruelly torn from their home and family in the middle of the night, the soldiers of a brutal totalitarian government have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them for...
Woman in Charge: Life of Hillary Clinton
A Woman in Charge shows the true trajectory of Hillary`s astonishing life and career. From a staunchly Republican household and apparently idyllic Midwestern girlhood - her disciplinarian father here revealed as...
Saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has...
This is a Blandings Omnibus. In this wonderfully fat omnibus, which seems to span the dimensions of the Empress of Blandings herself (the fattest pig in Shropshire and surely all England), the whole world of Blandings...
This is the life of , the bastard son of Jenny Fields-a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes-even of sexual...
This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight. Формат...
Is anything bothering you? Problems in class or at home? Don`t know where to turn for help? Log on to the Worry Website! Type in your worry and wait for the good advice to flow in. At least that`s the plan when Mr...
The son of one of New York`s wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can`t save him, because this kidnapper isn`t demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price...
Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job - and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs` droppings. They don`t wash their armpits...
You Never Give Me Your Money: Beatles
When Paul McCartney told the world in 1970 that he had no plans to work with the Beatles again, it was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy by the media and public alike. This title tells the story of the Fab Four post...
Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won`t touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is...
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...
Youth`s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real...
Джентльмен. Руководство по основным манерам, здравому смыслу и недостаткам
Мужчина может обладать дорогими вещами, блестящим автомобилем и соответствующей речью, но не они делают его джентльменом. Джентльмен определяется по тому, как он ведет себя в разных, в том числе и напряженных,...
