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Service with a Smile (A Blandings Story) (Paperback)

by P.G. Wodehouse (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Dec 1966)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140025324
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140025323
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 270,242 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lord Emsworth needs Blandings Castle to himself so he can tend his beloved pig, Empress of Blandings. Lord Ickenham sets out to help him remove the unwanted guests. Pongo Twistleton predicts that there will be trouble.


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A Blandings novel

As a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament. It comes hard to him, for he has a proper sense of the priorities in life, which rate pigs and flowerbeds higher than politicians.

But no sooner has he returned to Blandings than his real problems begin: the dastardly Duke of Dunstable is out to steal the Empress. His sister Lady Constance has inflicted on him a particularly nasty new secretary. And the Church Lads' Brigade are camped all over his lawns.

Thank God for the Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, whose own particularly devious brand of sweetness and light aims to banish blackmailers and pig-stealers and restore true love all over the castle grounds. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars wodehouse on top form, 18 May 2001
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it seems odd to be reviewing this book a whole 35 years after it was published, but here goes: if you are fond of wodehouse, then read it, and if you've not tried him, what took you so long?!

as ever, this book is full of elegant wit and gentle humour, as it follows yet more adventures in the life of lord emsworth, his beloved pig, and his nearest & dearest.

of course, the main plot line is much the same as ever for blandings books, but its the subtleties and delivery that are pure brilliance. read and enjoy!

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good book...at first glance, 18 May 2001
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When you read this book, you will enjoy it, but at the same time you may experience a slight feeling of deja vu. The storyline runs along the lines of: the empress of blandings gets stolen, someone ends up engaged to two girls at once, several people are trying to borrow large sums of money from several other people, and someone's niece gets shipped off to Blandings to prevent her marrying an impecunious suitor - not necessarily in that order. Sound familiar? That's because most Wodehouse fans could name at least three books with a VERY similar plot without stopping to think. Despite this, it is a very funny and redable book. Highly recommended, but if it sells out, just read almost any other Wodehouse and you won't know the difference.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Service Included., 23 May 2008
`Service with a Smile' marks Uncle Fred's third visit to Blandings in his quest to spread sweetness and light by bringing to a suitable conclusion Bill Bailey's wooing of Myra Schoonmaker. Myra Schoonmaker was a Blandings no show from `Heavy Weather' when she was impersonated by Sue Brown under the influence of Galahad in order to marry Ronnie Fish. Here Myra appears under her own colours whilst Bill assumes the name of Brazilian Cuthbert Meriwether. The marriage has been forbidden by Lady Constance who ends up becoming betroved to James Schoonmaker under instruction from Uncle Fred. A further engagement brought to fruition is that of Archie Gilpin and Millicent Rigby.

As Fred puts it `There is always apt to be trouble when you start spreading sweetness and light. You find there isn't enough to go around and someone has to be left out of the distribution. Very difficult to get a full hand' and so there is no happy ending for Blandings regulars Lord Tilbury, of the Mammoth Publishing company whom we met previously in `Bill the Conqueror', `Sam the Sudden' and `Heavy Weather', or the Duke of Dunstable whom appeared in `Uncle Fred in the Springtime'.

As with most Wodehouse, and particularly Blandings, the plot is of little consequence and we are generally delighted by the casts most eccentric characters on being given an airing and the show here is stolen by Uncle Fred and Lord Emsworth but especially George Threepwood, Emsworth's grandson, and his Hollywood gangster dialogue and his employ of said on Dunstable, now that he has graduated from shooting people with his air gun (`The Crime Wave at Blandings') to his camera.
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