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Kidnapping a pig a silly plot for a novel, ordinarily so but not if written by the brilliant , renowned comedic writer of innumerable stories, P.G. Wodehouse . Blandings Castle is the center of the ongoing mayhem and the 9th Earl Emsworth , 60, the clueless preparator and fond lover of his prize swi Leggi tutto

The Empress of Blandings has been pignapped! What, what? This has all the earmarks of a great Wodehouse story, and I love the inhabitants of Blanding Castle. Yes, even Lady Constance and Mr. Baxter. With the ever-wobbly Lord Emsworth at the helm, this installment has everything you could want in a Wod Leggi tutto

This is Somerset Maugham drunk on champagne. Evelyn Waugh without pain. Ishiguro . . . happy. If The Remains of the Day only had a pig. Oh, how a pig can turn things around! Summer Lightning has a pig called the Empress of Blandings. It also has a balcony. If you've read Graham Greene's short story

Much Ado About Nothing & The Comedy of Errors á lá the inimitable P.G. Wodehouse with thwarted lovers, missing pigs, scandal-manuscripts-to-be-stolen, set in the lovely Blandings Castle as the background and all this in hysterically funny and captivating Wodehouse-prose.

goodreads tells me i've now read seventeen wodehouse books, with sixteen of those being novels and short stories -- the other is a wonderful collection i can only highly recommend, called Wodehouse On Wodehouse that is part memoir of his time writing for musical theatre, and partly selected letters, Leggi tutto

I know that Wodehouse had a short and unsuccessful career in Hollywood but, while reading this novel, I found myself wondering what influence Wodehouse's books and characters might have had on the screenwriters of some of the 1930's screwball comedies.

AS THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY is being committed at sunny Blandings Castle Its most precious occupant has been stolen and the list of suspects is ever ongoing. Trust P.G. Wodehouse to bring you sun and laughter into your life when you need it the most.

After reading several entries in Wodehouse's Jeeves-Wooster series and a collection of Blandings Castle short stories, I had the passing thought that maybe Wodehouse rarely (if ever) had a bad day in his personal life. It wasn't until I then explored a bit that I came to discover (of course) that th Leggi tutto

I am a huge P.G. Wodehouse fan and have read many of his books. His books are always enjoyable, some of them are perfection. Summer Lightning (1929) is in the latter category. This is peak Wodehouse and the moment when the Blandings series really hits its stride. Readers fearing we might have seen th Leggi tutto