<p>Comprising of seven works of short fiction, ranging in genres from crime to tender romance, <i>Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories</i> depict tales of mystery and love with humor. Featuring some of P.G Wodehouse¿s most famous characters, four of the seven stories follow the misadventures of Jeeves and Bertie or Reggie Pepper. When a friend needs help convincing his uncle to approve of his bride-to-be, Jeeves and Bertie concoct a plan that includes the use of romance novels in <i>Jeeves in the Springtime. </i> Reggie Pepper¿s trouble takes center stage in <i>The Test Case, </i> when his lover voices her doubts that they could ever marry. Other stories within the collection introduce new characters, including a clever and witty young woman named Eve in <i>The Best Sauce. </i> Working as a paid companion to a woman with a stormy temper, Eve is unhappy but is settled in her bleak condition. However, when a man from her past, Peter Rayner, shows up in hopes to marry Eve, she devises
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<p>This volume reprints two of Wodehouse¿s earliest books which take the form of story sequences linked by a central character, a technique he used many times thereafter. Delightful in themselves, they are interesting chiefly as windows on a great...
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<p>Notable for the first appearance of P.G Wodehouse¿s popular reoccurring characters, Bertie and Jeeves, <i>The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories</i> features thirteen funny and sentimental works of short fiction. The first...
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'Does one desire the Yule-tide spirit, sir?''Certainly one does. this delightful collection from 'the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness' (Julian Fellowes) brings together a baker's dozen of P. Wodehouse's...
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