- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (22 Feb 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140025707
- ISBN-13: 978-0140025705
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 386,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you want an unbiased review, you had better go elsewhere. I have been a devotee of P.G.Wodehouse for decades. Why?
Because of his beautiful English; because of his clever plotting; because his characters are totally harmless; because his similes and metaphors are outrageously inventive; because he is funny; and - oh, just because.
Wodehouse has no hidden scenario, no sub-text, no 'message', no axe to grind; he writes simply to entertain.
If you don`t believe me, just read it. But beware; there should be a health warning on the cover. It can be addictive. But if you do get hooked, think what a lovely prospect opens out before you: Wodehouse wrote over 90 books.
Because of his beautiful English; because of his clever plotting; because his characters are totally harmless; because his similes and metaphors are outrageously inventive; because he is funny; and - oh, just because.
Wodehouse has no hidden scenario, no sub-text, no 'message', no axe to grind; he writes simply to entertain.
If you don`t believe me, just read it. But beware; there should be a health warning on the cover. It can be addictive. But if you do get hooked, think what a lovely prospect opens out before you: Wodehouse wrote over 90 books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is not the story of the girl who said to her betrothed `I will not be dictated to!' and then went and got a job as a stenographer, it is rather the ninth Blandings novel continuing the saga with the characters Timpson Plimsoll and Veronica Hermoine whom we previously met in `Full Moon'. Once again Galahad Threepwood must re-unite them as well as bringing wedding bells to his nephew Wilfred Allsop and Sam Bagshott whom have fallen in love respectively with Lord Emsworth's pig girl Monica Simmons and secretary Sandy Callender.
Blandings Castle which, as has been noted previously, has imposters in much the same way other Castles have mice and here is no exception with Sam appearing as legendary pig authority Augustus Whipple, author of `The Care of the Pig'. The Butler, Beach, is aware of the deception but initially struggles to be taken seriously.
And so mistaken identity and misunderstanding build this into a typical Wodehouse farce which leaves us gasping as Galahad manages to dot all the i's and cross all the t's before the sun sets on Blandings.
Blandings Castle which, as has been noted previously, has imposters in much the same way other Castles have mice and here is no exception with Sam appearing as legendary pig authority Augustus Whipple, author of `The Care of the Pig'. The Butler, Beach, is aware of the deception but initially struggles to be taken seriously.
And so mistaken identity and misunderstanding build this into a typical Wodehouse farce which leaves us gasping as Galahad manages to dot all the i's and cross all the t's before the sun sets on Blandings.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What can you say. Classic Wodehouse, wonderful escapism, a mastery of the comical side of the English language unsurpassed. Emsworth, Gally, Connie and the obligiatory sundered hearts. Top stuff
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A great read.
Like most of the Blanding Castle series this story will make you laugh, cringe and always want to read more. It's light and funny and a great escape.
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