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by P.G. Wodehouse (Author) "Blandings castle slept in the sunshine ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library; New edition edition (24 Nov 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841591092
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841591094
  • Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 73,108 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is a Blandings novel. "The Empress of Blandings", prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will rock the aristocracy to its foundations) to the Efficient Baxter, chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence's arch-rival, and his passion for prize-winning pigs? With the castle full of deceptions and impostors, will Galahad's memoirs ever see the light of day? And will the Empress be returned...? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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A Blandings novel

‘You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.’ Stephen Fry

The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.

Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty – from Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will rock the aristocracy to its foundations) to the Efficient Baxter, chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence’s arch-rival, and his passion for prize-winning pigs?

With the castle full of deceptions and impostors, will Galahad's memoirs ever see the light of day? And will the Empress be returned...? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars More Piggish Capers at Blandings Castle, 23 Dec 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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Summer Lightning is one of the several delightful books in the Blandings Castle series by P.G. Wodehouse. Summer Lightning is better than many other P.G. Wodehouse books in that the plot and character development are more thorough than most which keeps the fun going longer.

Clarence, the ninth Earl of Emsworth, is at home in his castle in Shropshire where he dotes on his famous prize-winning pig, the Empress of Blandings. Having dispatched his earlier secretary, Baxter, Clarence is at peace contemplating how his pig will win again when he learns from his brother Galahad (Gally) that the neighbor's pig man is offering 3:1 odds against the Empress. Clarence and Gally presume that their neighbor, Sir Gregory Parsloe is planning to knobble the Empress. Their worst fears are borne out when the Empress disappears!

At the same time, Parsloe lives in fear that Gally will publish old stories about his wild younger days in Gally's new book. Clarence's and Gally's sister Connie wants to stop publication as well. Soon the castle is overrun with manuscript thieves!

At the same time, love is in the air. Clarence's new secretary, Hugo Carmody, is secretly and unsuitably in love with Millicent Threepwood, niece to Clarence, Connie and Gally, and Millicent is in love with him. But they need to get some financial help to pull off the merger.

Ronald Fish, a wealthy young man whose money is tied with Clarence, is also in love with an unsuitable person . . . one Sue Brown who is a chorus girl. Ronnie has proven himself to be a poor judge of investments in the past, and Clarence is skeptical of allowing any more money. It doesn't help when Clarence finds that Ronnie doesn't truly share his love of pigs!

Will love win out? Of course! It's a P.G. Wodehouse book. But before love wins, humor will take the day in many silly scenes worthy of Shakespeare's best in the forest of Arden.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hillarious, 15 Mar 2001
By Ganime B. Akin (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews
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Although the one I read was an earlier edition, since the content is the same I can recommend this book to anyone who has no objection to laughing out loud when reading a novel. The novel is set in a bizarre aristocratic family circle and is about a prize winning pig called "Summer Lightening". More than once, when reading the novel, I couldn't stifle my laugh. I am surprised to see that nobody has written a review about this which I take as its not being widely read. If you like humour it's a must-read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very good, light read, 21 Nov 2003
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What Ho! Anyone wanting to escape for a while to a pleasant little world full of bizarrly funny, yet lovable characters must read this. I too read an earliar version, in the "signiture series" i beleive, and it was an absolutley spiffing read. Jolly good and all that. It is set at Blandings castle, a large property owned by the rather forgetfull Lord Emsworth, whos only care is his prize winning pig, the Empress of Blandings. Along come many other great characters to disturb his little world, and chaos ensues. A jolly good read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A comedy of manners focused not on the drawing room but on the pig pen.
The third in the eleven-book Blandings Castle series, Summer Lightning (1929) is a typical comedy of manners in its witty satire of upperclass life, with all its affectations,... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mary Whipple

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant writing, excellently read
Martin Jarvis is a delight as he invests every character with their own voice. He alternates smoothly between interpretations of the put upon butler Beach, the scheming... Read more
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`Summer Lightning' is the third novel in the Blanding's saga and the fist in which the residents of Blanding's themselves take centre stage. Read more
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