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Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2019

On the surface ,our narrator has everything you could want in life. She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.

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Ottessa Moshfegh:Eileen

PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2016

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Aunts aren't Gentlemen

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Cocktail Time

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Full Moon

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Heavy Weather

W. W. NORTON & CO., 2012

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P. G. Wodehouse: Hot Water

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Château Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn't please its current occupier, J. Wellington Gedge.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

The beefy 'Stilton' Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament - which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Jeeves in the Offing

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Jetzt oder nie!

SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2006

Lord Holbeton hat ein Problem: Er kann seine Angebetete, Sally, nicht heiraten, weil sein Vermögen vom alten Duff treuhänderisch verwaltet wird und der seiner Wahl niemals zustimmen wird;...

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P. G. Wodehouse: Laughing Gas

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Leave it to Psmith

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Lady 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...

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P. G. Wodehouse: Mike at Wrykyn

EVERYMAN, 2011

First published as "Mike" 1909, this book was split by Herbert Jenkins, Wodehouse's publishers, into "Mike at Wrykyn" and "Mike and Psmith" in 1953, with some modernization of the language.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Money for Nothing

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there’s a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody.

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P. G. Wodehouse: My Man Jeeves

EVERYMAN, 2006

Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Ohne mich, Jeeves!

SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2007

Dank der praktischen Intelligenz seines Butlers Jeeves gelingt es Bertie Wooster auch dieses Mal, die verschlungenen Fäden zu entwirren, als die sich die Ereignisse in Steeple Bumpleigh präsentieren.

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P. G. Wodehouse: Pelican at Blandings

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle – particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives une

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P. G. Wodehouse: Piccadilly Jim

ARROW BOOKS, 2008

It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim – nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise.

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