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Monty Bodkin returns home to England after a year in America, his absence having strengthened his resolve to claim the hand in marriage of his intended, the hockey-playing Gertrude Butterwick. However, his association with an overweight Hollywood movie mogul, his redoubtable wife and even more formidable step-daughter sets the scene for complications. Add to this pot-pourri the piquant seasonings of a third-rate private detective, a devious pair of confidence tricksters and a string of pearls, and the course of true love certainly won't run smoothly for Monty ...

P G Wodehouse is recognised as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the "Everyman Wodehouse" will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset. Each "Everyman" volume will be the finest edition of the master ever published. "Very Good Jeeves!" (1930) is a collection of eleven short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman's gentleman. Whether Bertie is tangling with a red-headed ball of fire such as Roberta Wickham, dealing with an irate headmistress, placating a rampaging aunt, puncturing the wrong hot water bottle, singing 'Sonny Boy', or simply trying to concentrate on his golf handicap, Jeeves is always there to help - though rarely in ways which his employer expects. These brilliantly plotted stories give the essence of Wodehousian comedy.

La trama se refiere a la vendimia una miniatura Gainsborough, una casa de campo carcomida, un abogado de sobrepeso, un cazador de fortunas, un mayordomo que no es un mayordomo, un abogado corporativo estadounidense y su hermana cleptómana, pero el corazón de la historia - en todos los sentidos - la preocupación por Jerry West y su búsqueda decidida de Air Hostess Hunnicutt Jane, la chica del mismo nombre en azul. Cuando Jane inesperadamente se convierte en una millonaria, Jerry desespera de cortejarla, pero el sol nunca se va detrás de una nube durante mucho tiempo en Wodehouse: Jerry consigue su Jane, al final, pero sólo después de una serie de ensayos que subir las apuestas cómicas a lo más alto del autor nivel.

A Blandings novelLady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace.The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth''s younger son, who wants the reward money to set up a bookmaking business. Psmith, the elegant socialist, is also after it for his newly married chum Mike. And on patrol with the impossible task of bringing management to Blandings is the Efficient Baxter, whose strivings for order lead to a memorable encounter with the castle flowerpots.Will peace ever return to Blandings Castle...?

Inhabiting its confines is drippy Madeline, who firmly believes that the stars are God's daisy chain. She is engaged to Bertie's old chum Gussie, but she'll happily settle for Bertie should things go amiss. So when the engagement does falter, Bertie must hope that Jeeves will forget their differences over a certain pink-feathered Alpine hat and once more come to his rescue ...

This is a baker''s dozen of P.G. Wodehouse''s finest short stories. 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. This beautiful edition includes tales related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of the Angler''s Rest; the Oldest Member at the Golf Club; the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge and, of course, the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. The plots follow on from each other, sometimes directly, and occasionally refer back to past events in Blekes meteoric career.

El cortejo al que Monty Bodkin tenía sometida a Gertrude Butterwick a bordo de Atlanticáno iba precisamente viento en popa. Y toda la culpa la tenía Lotus Blossom, la estrella más rutilante del firmamento de Hollywood. El descarado sentido de la camaraderia de la señorita Blossom, unido a la conviccion de que Monty era el unico capaz de devolverle a su anhelado Ambrose, estaba causando a Monty mas de un quebradero de cabeza. Sin embargo, Lotus y Monty no eran los unicos adeptos al ceño fruncido. Estaban tambien Reggie Tennyson y Ikey Llewellyn. Los problemas de Reggie eran de caracter pecuniario, pero los de Ikey eran muchos mas serios: llevaba algo metido en la cabeza, situacion mas que peligrosa teniendo en cuenta su capacidad mental...

Cuando el riquísimo Alfred Cork murió, dejó toda su fortuna a su mujer, que había sido una famosa actriz del cine mudo. Pero en el testamento había una cláusula: áAdela, la viuda, tenía que mantener de por vida a su cuñado Smedley Cork, un petimetre acostumbrado a la buena vida y a no pegar golpe. Claro esta que la idea que Adela u Smedley tenian sobre esta manutencion era muy diferente. Para la ex actriz, significaba una habitacion en su propia casa, tres comidas por dia, y yogur, mucho yogur, en lugar de los cocteles a los que en bon vivant estaba acostumbrado. Smedley, por su parte, pensaba que Adela estaba moralmente obligada a instalarlo en un apartamento en Park Avenue, y a poner a su disposicion una bien provista cuenta bancaria. Como la frugal viuda se mantenia en sus trece, Smedley urdio un plan para conseguir la fortuna que se merecia por sus refinados apetitos. Y en ese plan ocupaba un lugar destacado el diario de una volcanica actriz muerta en un accidente de aviacion.En esta ocasion, Hollywood es el territorio elegido por Wodehouse para desplegar su desternillante humor, su desopilante sentido del absurdo. Una ciudad enloquecida donde toda locura es posible.