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10 best books like A Pelican at Blandings (P.G. Wodehouse): The Complete Yes Minister, The Collected Short Stories of Saki, Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man, The Worshipful Lucia, Oh! to be in England, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, Marling Hall

The Complete Yes Minister
AuthorJonathan Lynn
ISBN0563206659
'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I
think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a
fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castle's... and
although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it
is distinctly funnier' - Lord Allen of...
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
AuthorSaki
ISBN1853260711
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'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'

Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories...
Twisted Tales from Shakespeare
AuthorRichard Armour
ISBN0070022518
"I am for you!" cries Tybalt, trying to mix (Romeo) up, being really against him.

Lady Macbeth rubs her hands with Glee, a Scottish detergent of those days . . . .

"Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,/Sing willow, willow, willow." Try singing any song in this position.

If...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
Rumpole and the Golden Thread
AuthorJohn Mortimer
ISBN0140063315
the title story manages to weave old-fashioned morality, English legalese, colonialism, and the need for African independence into an inoffensive little mystery. but is that a valediction or a condemnation? this take on a loaded topic is certainly tasteful and wryly amusing. but should it be?

in...
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
AuthorHenry Howarth Bashford
ISBN1598180355
It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction;...
The Worshipful Lucia
AuthorE.F. Benson
ISBN0060913754
Darlings, you simply must view the outrageous exhibition on display in Tilling! Art should of course both enlighten and revivify - but sometimes it must shock as well! And this display will shock the bonnets right off of your heads! Who knew the charms of provincial life in a small town would be but pleasant...
Oh! to be in England
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0141029668
With a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - are to be christened. Pop, who needs no excuse to open a few bottles and host the perfick party, rushes out and buys a fun fair to celebrate. But there are one or two gatecrashers even Pop...
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
AuthorSebastian Faulks
ISBN1250047595
Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)—return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks.

P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly...
Marling Hall
AuthorAngela Thirkell
ISBN0786702737
This dry comedy of manners, set in a parochial England that was rapidly disappearing under the threat of Nazi Germany, was the first of Thirkell's increasingly dark novels written during World War II. But the placid surface of middle-class life in towns such as Marling Melicent--where a bohemian,...
Fillets of Plaice
AuthorGerald Durrell
Durrell's hilarious and warm My Family and Other Animals (1957) began a trio of reminiscences of his life growing up with a slightly dotty family—the overbearing and omniscient Larry; the affectionate and loving siblings, Margot and Leslie; and, of course, the overburdened and patient Mother—on...
Lanterns & Lances
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN1556112998
I am stunned to see that I have not yet reviewed this book but since I just finished another reading, I will go ahead and offer up my review. I was given this gift from a special soul, someone I consider my big brother because he knows that I am a Thurber junkie and have been since I first discovered A Thurber...
Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse
AuthorBen Schott
ISBN0316524603
What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel, penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott--in which literature's favorite gentleman and his gentleman's personal gentleman become spies in service to the Crown.

The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and...
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