Blandings Castle and Elsewhere: (Blandings Castle).
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Book short specifications
- Author
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Series
- Blandings Castle
- Language
- english
- Release date
- May 1, 2008
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-951383-4
- GTIN
- 9780099513834
- Weight, g
- 224
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
‘I love his writing, it’s so clever and funny, so deft.' Alan Titchmarsh’s 6 Best Books choice (Daily Express)
A Blandings collection
The ivied walls of Blandings Castle have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories — but there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it.
For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is off her food - and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence's sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the horrible prospect of the summer fête — twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the custody of the pumpkin.
Skipping an ocean and a continent, Wodehouse also treats us to some unputdownable stories of excess from the monstrous Golden Age of Hollywood.