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The Girl on the Boat features red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and his dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight. All four find themselves on an ocean liner headed for England together, and typically Wodehousian romantic shenanigans ensue.

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 ...

Death at the Excelsior and Others is a posthumously published compilation of short stories by Wodehouse, including: Death at the Excelsior, Misunderstood, The Best Sauce, Jeeves and the Chump Cyril,

A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday Evening Post, between May and June that year. Golf-loving American composer George Bevan falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day; when he tracks her down to a romantic rural manor, mistaken identity leads to all manner of brouhaha. The story was made into a silent, black-and-white movie in 1919. In 1928 Wodehouse collaborated with Ian Hay in adapting the book for the stage: Hay, Wodehouse and A. A. Milne invested in the production, about which Wodehouse said "I dont think we shall lose our money, as Ian has done an awfully good job." The play, which opened at the New Theatre, London, on 13 August 1928, had a successful run of 234 performances. Wodehouse was involved in adapting the novel as a musical in 1937. A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, loosely based on his novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, it is directed by George Stevens.

Ashe was reading listlessly down the column when, from the mass of advertisements, one of an unusual sort detached itself. WANTED: Young Man of good appearance, who is poor and reckless, to undertake a delicate and dangerous enterprise. Good pay for the right man. Apply between the hours of ten and twelve at offices of Mainprice, Mainprice & Boole, 3 Denvers Street, Strand. Ashe, an adventurer at heart, was also uncommonly lazy. As it was, however, he could make an immediate start. It was with fine fervor animating him that he entered the gloomy offices of Mainprice, Mainprice & Boole. His brain was afire and he felt ready for anything.

A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday Evening Post, between May and June that year. Golf-loving American composer George Bevan falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day; when he tracks her down to a romantic rural manor, mistaken identity leads to all manner of brouhaha. The story was made into a silent, black-and-white movie in 1919. In 1928 Wodehouse collaborated with Ian Hay in adapting the book for the stage: Hay, Wodehouse and A. A. Milne invested in the production, about which Wodehouse said "I dont think we shall lose our money, as Ian has done an awfully good job." The play, which opened at the New Theatre, London, on 13 August 1928, had a successful run of 234 performances. Wodehouse was involved in adapting the novel as a musical in 1937. A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, loosely based on his novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, it is directed by George Stevens.

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...?

Psmith ha renunciado a su puesto de secretario de un opulento tío, simplemente porque no soportaba el olor a pescado que despedía el lucrativo negocio de este, y ahora se ofrece públicamente para cualquier clase de trabajo. Su especialidad consiste en sacar de apuros a la gente. Y de la mano del siempre resuelto y optimista Psmith, el lector se internara en los desternillantes vericuetos del castillo de Blandings, lugar famoso en la geografia de la literatura humoristica.Alli se encontrara con una de las mas prodigiosas galcrias de excentricos que ha producido la pluma de Wodehouse, comenzando por el inefable dueño de la casa, el conde de Emsworth, y siguiendo por su atolondrado sobrino Freddie, que en esta novela pretende debutar como ladron de joyas. Claro que la competencia es feroz en excentricidad y en aficion a las preciosas gemas, y Freddie y Psmith tendran que verselas con una supuesta poetisa que en realidad ha ido a Blandings con la intencion de apoderarse del collar de brillantes de la queridisima tia Constance.

Los Gedge viven en un pueblecito idílico, y en una mansión no me­nos maravillosa. Lo que no saben es que dos ladrones de guante muy blanco codician sus diamantes. La señora Gedge, por su parte, ambi­

Dirty work in the Fourth Dimension was the cause of all the trouble. Somebody slipped up badly, the wires became crossed and an ''identity-switch'' resulted.El juego sucio en la Cuarta Dimensión fue la causa de todos los problemas. Alguien se deslizo de mala manera, los cables se cruzaron y el resultado fue un ''intercambio de identidades''.

What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature''s white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly''s fearsome stepmother, Mrs Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law.¿Que es lo que debe hacer un hombre para poner fin a su solteria? Para George Finch, un mirlo blanco de la naturaleza y probablemente el peor artista que nunca haya pasado la brocha por un lienzo, hay multitud de obstaculos Sin duda

A Blandings omnibus impostors abound in the latter-day Eden that is Blandings Castle. The impostors in question are Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, two impecunious authors. Their brief: to steal back a scarab that Lord Emsworth has carelessly purloined from his future brother in-law and brought to Blandings. Un Blandings encarga a unos impostores que se introduzcan en el paraiso de retiro que es el Castillo de Blandings. Los impostores en cuestion son Ashe Marson y Joan Valentine, dos autores en una situacion economica estrecha. Su mision: recuperar un escarabeo que Lord Emsworth ha sustraido sin esfuerzo alguno de su futuro cuñado y llevado a Blandings.

Lord Biskerton, son and heir of the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon, and known to his friends as Biscuit, had red hair, a scenario for a moustache and a determination to escape the disgrace of work. His friend Berry Conway, however, had succumbed to economic pressure and become the secretary to T Paterson Frisby, a dyspeptic American who had 20 million.Lord Biskerton, hijo y heredero de el sexto Conde de Hoddesdon, y conocido entre sus amigos como ''Biscuit'', tiene el cabello rojo, un bigote incipiente y toda la conviccion necesaria para evadirse de la desgracia de trabajar Su amigo Berry Conway, sin embargo, ha sucumbido a la presion economica y se ha convertido en el secretario de T...

When Maud Marsh flings herself into George Benson''s cab in Piccadilly, he starts believing in damsels in distress. But when George traces his mysterious traveling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, things become severely muddled, and he begins an adventure that turns out to be both intriguing and hilarious. Cuando Maud Marsh se cuela en el taxi de George Benson en Picadilly, el empieza creyendo que se trata de una damisela en apuros. Pero cuando George rastrea a su compañera de viaje hasta el Castillo Belpher, casa solariega de Lord Marshmoreton, las cosas empiezan a complicarse rapidamente, y para George comienza una aventura que resulta ser tan misteriosa como hilarante.

Contents: / The Man Upstairs / Something To Worry About / Deep Waters / When Doctors Disagree / By Advice Of Counsel / Rough-Hew Them How We Will / The Man Who Disliked Cats / Ruth In Exile / ArchibaldS Benefit / The Man, The Maid, And The Miasma / The Good Angel / Pots O Money / Out Of School / Three From Dunsterville / The Tuppenny Millionaire / Ahead Of Schedule / Sir Agravaine / The Goal-Keeper And The Plutocrat / In Alcala