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Full Moon (1947) (Blandings Castle #7) is good, and a visit to Blandings Castle is always a joy. Full Moon is not peak PGW though. All his books are formulaic but this is just a bit too obvious, and lacks sufficient hearty guffaw inducing moments. American millionaire Tipton Plimsoll forsaking alcoh Leggi tutto

Wodehouse’s satire of the British aristocracy is the Spitting Images of literature in this genre. Once again we are at Blanding Castle with an array of characters. Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth is still obsessed with the Empress and is search of an artist to immortalize her on canvas. His younger s Leggi tutto

Hilarious, laugh-out-loud, softly giggle to oneself kind of book. Most of the characters are easily identifiable and that's what makes P.G. one of the greatest writers of his time. Situational comedy is hard to depict but he seems to be a master at it.

"A silence ensued. When a young man of shy disposition, accustomed to the more Bohemian society of Chelsea, finds himself alone on her home ground with the daughter of a hundred earls and cannot forget that at their last meeting he mistook her for the cook and tipped her half a crown; and when the d Leggi tutto