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Evelyn Waugh

Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimee, the naive Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art... A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, "The Loved One" depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal. Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.

Cecily von Ziegesar

The bash at the Miller farm was the hottest party Jenny Humphrey had ever attended. Literally. But when Dean Marymount announces that someone is going to be held responsible for burning down the antique red barn, and expelled from Waverly Academy, the heat is really on. Tensions are rising, rumours are flying, and pretty soon everyone is a suspect. But was it Julian, Jenny's shaggy-haired new crush, whose engraved Tiffany lighter was found at the scene of the crime? Or could it have been Callie and Easy who were in the barn - together - when the blaze began? Tinsley knows she's also in the line of fire for organising the party, but luckily she's come up with a crafty way to stay out of trouble: by blaming Jenny. When you fight fire with fire someone is bound to get burned - "Lucky", the explosive fifth book in the "It Girl" series.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Waverly Academy, an exclusive, mixed boarding school in upstate New York, is a place where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time. Jenny Humphrey is on her way to Waverly and she can't wait. Goodbye Manhattan and goodbye uptight all-girls school Constance Billard. Jenny has big plans for reinventing herself. She will be stunning, amazing New Jenny, the one who belongs at the centre of everything, adored by all. But her gorgeous, stylish roommates, Callie Vernon and Brett Messerschmidt, aren't about to just let the new girl walk in and take over... Hot guys, misbehaviour and delicious gossip - The it Girl is the first in a sassy, sophisticated, completely addictive new series. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.

P. G. Wodehouse

Poor Bertie is in the soup again, and throughout this latest omnibus it is only Jeeves who keeps him from being the fish and the main course as well. In these delightful pages you will encounter all the stalwarts who have made the Jeeves novels and stories the very pinnacle of English humour, from Aunts Agatha and Dahlia to Roderick Spode, Tuppy Glossop, Madeline Bassett, Oofy Prosser and Anatole the Chef. At the end even Augustus the cat has come to be much obliged to Jeeves.

Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

A rapier-sharp, hilariously irreverent collection of true-life essays from the beloved author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay.Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has never been one to take the conventional route. Whether financing a move to LA with only a best friend's bat mitzvah savings or accidentally freebasing cocaine, Stefanie is living proof that the unlikely can happen -- usually to her. And when it does, the best response is a potent combination of pluck, luck, humor, and frequently, alcohol.In these candid essays, Stefanie recounts how a nice Jewish girl from Queens became a Hollywood producer, writer, and mother of three, with some surprising detours along the way. From disproving her mother's "cars aren't free" refrain by going on Hollywood Squares and winning one, to signing up for a romantic sunset cruise that turns out to be a hellish fratfest staffed by a pushy pirate-attired crew, Stefanie shares her triumphs, missteps, and the many lessons learned. She reveals why it's never...

Mark Twain

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The 1,000,000 Bank-Note, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The Mysterious Stranger

The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories. The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include `The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,` one of Twain's most amusing pieces of folk humor, first published in 1865; `The 1,000,000 Bank Note,` a light hearted exploration of the power of money; `The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,` a masterfully written short story about greed; and his last work, `The Mysterious Stranger,` a novelette published posthumously in 1916, presenting Twain's rather grim views of God, man and the universe.

Mark Twain

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles-a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city's boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is. Brimming with gentle humor and discerning social scrutiny, this timeless tale of transposed identities remains one of Twain's most popular and best-loved novels. Формат: 13 см х 21 см.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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P. G. Wodehouse

A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman - in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (he marries the last, the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). And Bertie, with Jeeves's help, just evades the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop... At its heart is one of Wodehouse's most delicious stories, 'The Great Sermon Handicap'. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.

P. G. Wodehouse

Thank You, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, The Inimitable Jeeves

"It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not," says Bertie. "If I had Jeeves's brain, I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something." Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves's services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policemen's helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus of Jeeves novels and stories: "Thank You, Jeeves", "The Code of the Woosters" and "The Inimitable Jeeves".