Very Good, Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse

JEEVES! Who does not know him ? - the perfect servant, the cream of gentlemen's gentlemen, the inimitable Jeeves ! No situation is ever too obscure for Jeeves, no cause is ever lost while Jeeves has a hand in the matter, the most nerve-shattering sho cks cannot ruffle his equanimity or baffle his resource. Jeeves is incomparable. He is one of P. G. Wodehouse's greatest creations. In this new volume are related various further episodes in the career of Jeeves; Mr. Wodehouse has never written with greater sparkle or vivacity, and Jeeves has never been more superb. Very Good, Jeeves will be the biggest laughter book of the season. . morehide

Letter from Peking

Pearl S. Buck

My dear Wife: First, before I say what must be said, let me tell you that I love only you. Elizabeth MacLeod received that letter in Vermont. She had been forced to leave her half-Chinese husband when the Communists entered Peking. And she had taken their son and returned to America, returned to the family farm to wait, sustained by her passionate love for the husband from whom she was so unwillingly separated. Then came that last letter and her whole existence was violently overturned. morehide

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

A classic novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author offers a graphic view of China during the reign of the last Emperor, and tells the story of an honest farmer and his wife as they struggle with the sweeping changes of the twentieth century.

Adonais with Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley wrote the 'Adonais' elegy immediately after hearing about Keats's death. It was composed during the spring of 1821 and first published in July 1821.It is a beautiful work, and one of which Shelley was justly proud. Most critics consider it one of his finest works. Percy Bysshe Shelley composed the poem "Ode to the West Wind" in 1819 near Florence, Italy; it was published in 1820. Some have interpreted the poem as an expression of the speaker lamenting his current geolocation inasmuch as he felt helpless to do much about the events happening in England while he was in Italy; at the same time, the poem expresses the hope that its words will inspire and influence those who read or hear it. Although this poem seems to be about nature (with abundant imagery of wind, trees, leaves, water, clouds, and so on), it is a highly controlled text about the role of the poet as the agent of political and moral change. morehide

Pope's Essay on Man

Pope

In Alexander Pope's Essay on Man he addresses man's ability to reason, questions the nature of Christianity, and speculates about man's place in the world.