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Always a fast seller, CSA Word's large and still growing list of PG Wodehouse titles is one of the main attributes our reputation is built upon. Our 'Blandings' titles, including "A pelican at Blandings", "Summer Lightning" and "Heavy Weather", are the nucleus of this list, and never fail to raise a smile in a listener. In "Pigs Have Wings", our fourth release in the series, we again find Lord Emsworth embroiled in a fierce battle in the pig-rearing arena with his neighbour, Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who has purchased a fine porker. Alongside a host of romantic entanglements; Parsloe-Parsloe's ill-fated diet; Gally's guidance; detective work; and, the tribulations of abstinence and the pains of the long-suffering butler, beach, there is pig-nap afoot, but whose pig will have the last oink? This is of great fun and and jolly good listen for all.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
`Pigs Have Wings' is the seventh novel to be set in the grounds of Blandings Castle and by this time not only are the characters familiar but the plots are as well, and yet, I can't help but love these books.
Once again the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's celebrated pig, is again out to win the fattest pig award despite Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe importing an outsider to order. Galahad Threepwood with eminent assistance from Beach, the butler, and Jerry Vale, Lord Emsworth's latest in a long line of secretary's who are present under false pretences to woo the daughters of the extended family who have been sent for the seclusion, will endeavour to ensure the Empress wins for the third year in a row and so clean up at the bookies.
As the story opens three couples are engaged to be married due to misunderstanding, mistake or pique and at the end three couples are still engaged but now to the right people for the right reasons, God in his heaven and all is right with the world.
Once again the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's celebrated pig, is again out to win the fattest pig award despite Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe importing an outsider to order. Galahad Threepwood with eminent assistance from Beach, the butler, and Jerry Vale, Lord Emsworth's latest in a long line of secretary's who are present under false pretences to woo the daughters of the extended family who have been sent for the seclusion, will endeavour to ensure the Empress wins for the third year in a row and so clean up at the bookies.
As the story opens three couples are engaged to be married due to misunderstanding, mistake or pique and at the end three couples are still engaged but now to the right people for the right reasons, God in his heaven and all is right with the world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Pigs nearly always feature in the Blandings novels because Lord Emsworth is simply potty about his prize pig, the "Empress of Blandings". In this novel, his rivalry with his neighbour who is also in possession of a pig which he hopes will defeat the Empress in the next competition, reaches boiling point. At the centre of the novel we have a double stealing of pigs and the usual romantic entanglements. Anyway, this is simply delicious fun, a perfect tonic. Woken up by pain as I am, I find no better tonic than to tuck into a Wodehouse novel with its nonsence.
Thanks Fr Schall for reintroducing me to Wodehouse - it makes me wonder why I waited 20 years to return to him.
Thanks Fr Schall for reintroducing me to Wodehouse - it makes me wonder why I waited 20 years to return to him.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
P.G. Wodehouse was the 20th century's answer to William Shakespeare reproduced as musical comedy. In Pigs Have Wings, Mr. Wodehouse produced one of his very best efforts.
As usual, the themes involve a satire of romantic love, miscommunications between the sexes, the vapid interests of the titled class, and the silliness of people in general.
As the book opens, Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth finds himself faced with a threat to the supremacy of his pig, Empress of Blandings, in the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Bart, of Matchingham Hall, had already hired away Clarence's pig handler, George Cyril Wellbeloved . . . and Clarence is sure that some new skullduggery will soon follow. As the story develops, we find that it's all too true. Soon both pig camps are doing their best to knobble the other man's pig. With everyone else having a bet on the outcome, many other people are soon engaged in trying to sabotage one pig or the other. It's the most pignapping fun caper you can imagine!
In the background, we have all sorts of people who've become engaged to totally unsuitable people on the rebound from slights they feel from the one they really love. P.G. Wodehouse does a yeoman effort of returning all of those twisted loves to the proper party. The plot will keep you constantly chuckling throughout.
There are quite a few books based on the Empress of Blandings. So if you enjoy this one, go on to the others in the series.
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One of Wodehouse's Finest Books
Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, as vague and woollen-headed as ever, is set on his pig, Empress of Blandings, winning First Prize in the fat pigs section of the Shropshire Agricultural... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Paul D
Great stuff
It is a tad peculiar to criticise a Wodehouse novel for not being believable, but this one isn't as tightly plotted as the best. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Graham R. Hill
Can the Empress of Blandings win for a third unprecedented year?
Ah, wonderful - the Empress of Blandings is up for her third consecutive unprecedented possible win in the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show - Lord Emsworth is in pig heaven as... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Keen Reader
Love, money and fat pigs
As you embark on the 7th Blandings novel, you may sense that the writing is starting to feel ever so slightly tired. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Molerat
Wodehouse is a comic genius, one of his finest examples.
The ninth Earl of Emsworth has it all good health, a large sum of money and a top notch ancestral home. But there is a fly in the ointment, Sir Gregory Parsloe. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2001
Sublime
This (along with Heavy Weather) is probably the best of PG Wodehouse's Blandings Castle books. The plot is precisely the kind of thing PG Wodehouse does best- light as a feather,... Read more
Published on 29 April 2001
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