The "e;Little Nugget"e; of the title is one Ogden Ford, a spoiled, unpleasant child of overindulgent, wealthy parents; he is so dubbed due to his immense ransom value, being a prime target for kidnappers.
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a smalltime burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet.
Mike Jackson, cricketer and scion of a cricketing clan, finds his dreams of studying and playing at Cambridge upset by news of his father's financial troubles, and must instead take a job with the "e;New Asiatic Bank"e;.
After seeing his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge for the first time in years, Jeremy Garnet is dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's new chicken farm in Dorset.
This is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.
This book was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent.
While Drinking with the Fat Swede by Houston Hartwell Reed II is about those many people, those most interesting and colorful characters, who have shared the author's path - as a professional cowboy, successful advertising executive, and internationally recognized authority and columnist on professional darts and boxing - making each new day interesting and life's journey a very special adventure.
This book is (mainly) a conventional life-story, written in a deliberately conversational style that has you believing youre with a friend in your local Pub or enjoying a lengthy stroll on the river bank.
The aim of this book is to illustrate that not all accountants are boring, monotone dullards that achieve their thrills in life at the bottom of a balance sheet or by completing income tax returns.
When a banker and a semi-retired impresario come together to plan an evening of light entertainment, the road to the actual performance is not necessarily without its bumps and byways.
Within the pages of Peach Soda & SuzyQs are, without a doubt, some of the funniest, I-swear-on-my-mothers-grave-if-she-were-dead-it-really-happened stories of a young boy growing up in Washington, DC.
The Adventures of Tommy and Tina are two child friends, dreaming of being born as Loggerhead Sea Turtles and swimming down the Treasure Coast of Florida.
I truly believe God has created each and every one of us with a void or a hole in our heart from the moment of birtha hole that, when you have everything else based on sight, still yearns because it isnt filled.
