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Right Ho, Jeeves is the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 October 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title Brinkley Manor. It had also been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from 23 December 193...

William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse.The book was published on 11 November 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London, and was dedicated "to Biddy O'Sullivan for a Christmas present".[1Wodehouse dedicated books to 43 different people

The novel features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta, both previously encountered in The Little Nugget. Nesta has remarried, to the diffident, baseball-loving millionaire Mr Peter Pett, and Ogden remains spoilt and obnoxious. The story takes its title from the charismatic character of James "Jimmy" Crocker, Nesta's nephew and a reforming playboy. 'Jim' is called upon to assist in the kidnapping of Ogden, amongst much confusion involving imposter...

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Three Years" is Anton Chekhov's heartfelt attempt to create a "novel of Moscow life." In it, he paints a poignant portrait of the struggles and frustrations that go hand in hand with human relationships. Away from his native Moscow to care for his ailing sister, Laptev falls instantly in love with Yulia Sergeyevna, the daughter of the local doctor. She in turn feels nothing for him, but convinces herself it would be doing him a gross disservic...

Ticket No. "9672" is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne, and first published in 1886.

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1892).

Anton Chekhov is considered to be one of the finest short story writers in world literature. His work is held in high esteem by critics and writers.

In THE GAMBLER, Dostoyevsky explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society.

Candide, or Optimism (1759) written by Voltaire, the shining star of the French Enlightenment, is a biting, hilarious and frequently outrageous satire that pokes philosophical fun at -- of all things -- the doctrine of optimism. Candide is a nave youth stubbornly adhering to the notion that "all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds, " despite being cast into a flood of misfortunes and picaresque misadventures that take him ...

The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (18141873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To this day, contemporary readers who happen across his works praise his talent for weaving a tense literary atmosphere tinged by the supernatural and bolstered by hints of ambiguous ...

Special Student Edition with MARGINS for notes on each page. **** Heart of Darkness is considered by many to be Conrad's tour de force. This multi-structured story is full of ambiguities and layered meanings and is based extensively on Conrad's own experiences in Congo (though the book itself does not mention a specific place) where he saw terrible atrocities first hand. **** This student edition has special margins on every page for students ...

The great classic created and priced especially for students. Each page has a special margin for students to take notes on. Visit www.ManorStudent.com for a list of other student editions.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger. - excerpt from 'THE CONFIDENCE MAN: His Masquerade

A great example of the epistolary genre (where a story is told through letters, documents, etc.). Jane Austin displays her mastery of the language and the epistolary form in this work. Published after her death from a manuscript she left behind.

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