Collected Short Stories - Vol 4
U. Symyrset Moym
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice, the stories range ... [ more ] |
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Lasher
An Rajs
At the centre of Anne Rice's brilliant novel, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us ... [ more ] |
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The mummy or Ramses the damned
An Rajs
Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close ... [ more ] |
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Cry to Heaven
An Rajs
In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success ... [ more ] |
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Tales of the Body Thief
An Rajs
Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface - the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat - hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all - prowls ... [ more ] |
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The Golf Omnibus
P. G. Udhaus (P. G. Wodehouse)
‘I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strangely chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip-shot. If Cleopatra had been ... [ more ] |
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The Clergy Omnibus
P. G. Udhaus (P. G. Wodehouse)
In the whole delightful world of Wodehouse, the English clergy offers some of the richest sources of good-natured good humour.
Confronted by burglars or belted earls, they plough serenely on with the Advent sermon or the opening of the ... [ more ] |
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The Mating Season
P. G. Udhaus (P. G. Wodehouse)
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink- ... [ more ] |
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Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Udhaus (P. G. Wodehouse)
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
Gussie Fink-Nottle’s knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly ... [ more ] |
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The Heart of a Goof
P. G. Udhaus (P. G. Wodehouse)
A Golf collection
From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher’s fifth wife and a notorious ‘golfing giggler’, to poor ... [ more ] |
