Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best: The Blandings Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Wodehouse, P. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185740 ISBN 13: 9780141185743

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

Blandings Castle is the home of Lord Emsworth, whose IQ may be some thirty points below that of an absent minded jellyfish. His Lordship loves nothing better than to potter among his flowers, but even in this garden of Eden there is an influx of serpents ready to poison the peace. His corrosive tongued sister Constance is forever trying to reorganize his household. McAllister – official trainer of the prize pumpkin – leaves at a critical moment, that peach among pigs, the Empress of Blandings goes off her food and there is an outbreak of lawlessness not unconnected with an airgun and the trouser-seat of the abominable Baxter. And then there are the tangled love affairs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood. Blandings is a place where anything can happen ...

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"Jarvis is the lick" (The Guardian)

"A master, a genius of inventiveness and versatility, brilliant in his use of language, more adroit than almost any novelist since Dickens at working out a complex package of plot, sub-plot, and sub-sub-plot'" (Susan Hill Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

Great new Wodehouse Blandings recording read by one of the best readers in the business - Martin Jarvis

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141185740
• ISBN 13: 9780141185743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208