Pelham Grenville Wodehouse: 37 books

On arriving at Choppun Taters, a sweetly picturesque little village, we inquired of an intelligent inhabitant the way to St. Savory’s College. A walk of five minutes brought us to the headmaster’s door. St. Savory’s is a handsome stone building, resembling a pork-pie in shape, and decorated...

THE EARLIEST TOMBS. About thirteen “stairway” tombs and thirty-seven mastabas were examined. The precise number cannot be given, for when the walls of the mastaba are entirely denuded, and only the well is left, one cannot be sure that the grave was ever of the mastaba form. Of smaller graves which...

THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS (1899) THE HOSTING OF THE SIDHE THE host is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of Clooth-na bare; Caolte tossing his burning hair And Niamh calling Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream. The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our...

The Thin End of the Wedge “I beg you,” said the Headless Man with some agitation, “not to dream of doing such a thing. Of course, if you think that I am unequal to the work——” he added rather stiffly. “My dear Sir,” I replied, “not at all. Not at all. What a notion! I am sure there...

It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no Others think and to put them down upon a paper no Others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken...

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. —Wordsworth. "Some secret truths from learned pride concealed, To maids alone and children are revealed: What though no credit doubting wits may give,...

THESE Oracles are considered to embody many of the principal features of Chaldæan philosophy. They have come down to us through Greek translations and were held in the greatest esteem throughout antiquity, a sentiment which was shared alike by the early Christian Fathers and the later Platonists. The...

TO JOAN, EFFIE AND ERNESTINE BOWES-LYON PATIENT PERSEVERANCE PRODUCES PUGILISTIC PRODIGIES 'Where have I seen that face before?' said a voice. Tony Graham looked up from his bag. 'Hullo, Allen,' he said, 'what the dickens are you up here for

I am Margaret Goodwin. A week from today I shall be Mrs. James Orlebar Cloyster.