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Pigs Have Wings: A Blandings Story (Paperback)

by P.G. Wodehouse (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (2 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014028463X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140284638
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 705,246 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth has good health, a large income and a first-class ancestral home. But these blessings count for nothing in the presence of Sir Gregory Parsloe. Lord Emsworth is convinced he has evil designs on his pre-eminent pig, the Empress of Blandings.


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A Blandings novel

Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate?

In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Romance and Pignapping!, 13 Nov 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pigs Have Wings (Everyman Wodehouse) (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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wodehouse is a comic genius, one of his finest examples., 12 Nov 2001
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This review is from: Pigs Have Wings (Everyman Wodehouse) (Hardcover)
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. With the usual riotous affairs that earmarks Wodehouse as a true genius, you begin on a tale of miscomprehension and great hilarity for all, all the threads are untangled in the end and everybody is the better off for it. This book is truely a work of art, if you haven't read any Wodehouse than i envy you, i truly do. For you have all his worls laid out in front of you, ripe for the plucking.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wodehouse Winging it., 28 Mar 2008
This review is from: Pigs Have Wings (Everyman Wodehouse) (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.
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