This work features a collection of brilliantly entertaining stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster. Jeeves is not only a tireless servant to Bertie Wooster, but saviour of a good many other individuals as well. The list is long. Very long. There's Bingo Little in the affair of the marooned cabinet minister; Sippy Sipperley, when he is persecuted by his former headmaster; Tuppy Glossop in his foolhardy pursuit of the opera singer; and, not to mention Miss Dalgleish the dog-girl.
This rare course (out of print now)The "American Dream" is an ambiguous term as seen in popular culture. This pattern is reflected in music, television, film, and literature. The press keeps the term in print, and advertising capitalizes on the concept. People have many perceptions of what the "American Dream" is. For some, the dream is part of an ideology that snares and deludes. The dream is often portrayed as jingoistic. Self-determination, success, wealth, and acquisition are words often used to describe it
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler is a murder story. Private detective Philip Marlowe is looking for the wife of Derace Kingsly. Is she dead or not? Is she the lady in the lake?
Color rebus artwork, a simple vocabulary, and cut-out flash cards combine in an easy-to-read tale about a cat who becomes upset when a slobbery dog moves in and takes over everything, from his water dish to his favorite chair.
The fifth in the new Naxos Audiobooks series In a Nutshell, The Renaissance is a short and accessible introduction to the era that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Palestrina. The Renaissance swept across Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, heralding intellectual revolutions in science, art, philosophy and politics, and marking a decisive shift towards modern thinking. The authoritative Peter Whitfield brings together all the different threads of this transformative period in a lucid and fascinating introduction.
