Death at the Excelsior

Death at the Excelsior

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781722776893

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Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse Death At The Excelsior is a highly recommended introduction into the world of Wodehouse. A sterling collection of early short stories from the master of comedic complications. Death at the Excelsior and Others is a posthumously published compilation of short stories by Wodehouse, including: Death at the Excelsior Misunderstood The Best Sauce Jeeves and the Chump Cyril Jeeves in the Springtime Concealed Art The Test Case We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.


Arsenic and Clam Chowder

Arsenic and Clam Chowder

Author: James D. Livingston

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1438431805

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Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.


Star Trek: The Original Series: Excelsior: Forged in Fire

Star Trek: The Original Series: Excelsior: Forged in Fire

Author: Michael A. Martin

Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek

Published: 2007-12-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781416547167

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Discover how Sulu rose to the captaincy of a starship in this Star Trek adventure set during The Original Series era. A vicious pirate known as the Albino is cutting a deadly swath across space, creating turmoil in the Klingon Empire that threatens to spill into the Federation. But this criminal also has a secret that could shake the halls of Imperial power, and his genocidal plans against the race that bore him will have consequences even he cannot imagine, as several unlikely allies join swords to bring the Albino to justice: Hikaru Sulu of the U.S.S. Excelsior; Klingon captains Kor, Koloth, and Kang; and a hotheaded young Federation diplomat named Curzon Dax. Tempered in the flames of their shared adversity, a captaincy is forged, a Blood Oath is sworn...and a hunt begins that will stretch from one generation to the next.


A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

Author: Marly Youmans

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881462715

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After a death at The White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy Georgia, to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding. He searches the points of the compass for what will help, groping for a place where he can feel content, certain that he has no place where he belongs and that he rides the rails through a great darkness. His difficult path to collect enough radiance to light his way home is the road of a boy struggling to come to terms with the cruel but sometimes lovely world of Depression-era America. On Marly Youmans’s prior forays into the world of the past, reviewers praised her “spellbinding force” (Bob Sumner, Orlando Sentinel), “prodigious powers of description” (Philip Gambone, The New York Times), “serious artistry,” “unobtrusively beautiful language,” and “considerable power” (Fred Chappell, The Raleigh News & Observer.), “haunting, lyrical language and fierce intelligence” (starred review, Publishers Weekly.) Howard Bahr wrote of The Wolf Pit, “Ms. Youmans is an inspiration to every writer who must compete with himself. I had thought Catherwood unsurpassable, but Ms. Youmans has done it. Her characters are ℜ they live and move in the stream of Time as if they had passed only yesterday. Her lyricism breaks my heart and fills me with envy and delight. No other writer I know of can bring the past to us so musically, so truly.”


Excelsior!

Excelsior!

Author: Stan Lee

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-05-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0743228006

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In this treasure trove of marvelous memories, Stan tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comicbooks. He moves from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comicbooks, followed by military training films during World War II, through the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to his recent adventures in Hollywood.


The Uncollected Wodehouse

The Uncollected Wodehouse

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Publisher: International Polygonics

Published: 1999-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558820326

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For all fans of the incomparable and outrageously funny portrayer of English upper-class life, here is a necessary addition to the Wodehouse shelf. Taken mostly from old newspapers and magazines, these previously uncollected articles and short stories were written early in Wodehouse's literary career. Included are the only mystery story Wodehouse ever wrote, the first of his many articles for Punch, a hilarious spoof of the advertising world, amusing accounts of British public school life, and many other collector's delights.


Excelsior

Excelsior

Author: George H. Sirois

Publisher: George Sirois

Published: 2010-06-21

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0741460882

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"Matthew, so few humans achieve their destiny before leaving this world. You have that chance."Matthew Peters had spent the last seven years creating the ultimate online comic hero. He never dreamed that he would find the true hero within himself.


Here, Everything Is Dreaming

Here, Everything Is Dreaming

Author: Robert Moss

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1438447140

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Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.


Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories

Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1513275763

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Comprising of seven works of short fiction, ranging in genres from crime to tender romance, Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories depict tales of mystery and love with humor. Featuring some of P.G Wodehouse’s most famous characters, four of the seven stories follow the misadventures of Jeeves and Bertie or Reggie Pepper. When a friend needs help convincing his uncle to approve of his bride-to-be, Jeeves and Bertie concoct a plan that includes the use of romance novels in Jeeves in the Springtime. Reggie Pepper’s trouble takes center stage in The Test Case, when his lover voices her doubts that they could ever marry. Other stories within the collection introduce new characters, including a clever and witty young woman named Eve in The Best Sauce. Working as a paid companion to a woman with a stormy temper, Eve is unhappy but is settled in her bleak condition. However, when a man from her past, Peter Rayner, shows up in hopes to marry Eve, she devises a plan of petty pranks to scare him out of the house. Finally, in the title story, Death at the Excelsior, depicts a thrilling murder-mystery. When a previously healthy sailor is found dead in the Excelsior boarding house, Detective Snyder and his assistant, Oakes, must catch the killer before they strike again. Assembled posthumously, Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories features classic works of P.G Wodehouse’s short fiction, sampling from each genre he mastered. With simple language and excellent description, Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories serves as a perfect introduction to P.G Wodehouse and his beloved characters. This edition of Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories is now presented in an easy-to-read font and with a fun, eye-catching cover to cater to contemporary audiences.


The Poetics of Death

The Poetics of Death

Author: Beatrice Martina Guenther

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780791430231

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Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the death of meaning.