Sunset at Blandings

p.g. wodehouse richard usborne

With the sun finally setting on that wondrous earthy paradise that is Blandings, Vicky Underwood finds herself forcibly parted from her beloved, Jeff Bennison. Her Uncle Galahad turns his not inconsiderable talents to reuniting the love-birds. Wodehouse's final chronicle of Blandings is unfinished, but three Wodehouse admirers have supplied a treasure trove of notes and plot details, providing fascinating insights into the mind of the author.

Genres humorfictionclassicscomedyliteraturebritish literaturehistorical fiction20th centurynovelsrealistic fiction

151 pages, Paperback

First published November 1,1977

Series

Blandings Castle

This edition

Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Published: May 1, 2001 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140284652
ASIN: 0140284656
Language: English

Characters More characters

Clarence Threepwood

Clarence Threepwood, ninth Earl of Emsworth, amiable and boneheaded peer, appears first in Something Fresh; a long, lean, bald-headed, stringy man of about sixty with a reedy tenor voice, a widower for 25 years. Called Fathead at Eton in the 60s. Cl...
Sebastian Beach

Sebastian Beach, formerly an under-footman, then a footman, is the Butler at Blandings Castle in Something Fresh, Leave It to Psmith, Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best, Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!, Company for Gertrude, Summer Lightning, Go-Getter, Heavy Weather, The...
Galahad Threepwood

The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, the only genuinely distinguished Threepwood, Lady Constance Keebles "deplorable brother" in many stories and novels. Younger brother of Clarence, Lord Emsworth; all but one of his ten sisters regard him as a waster. Lady...
Freddie Threepwood

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Daphne Littlewood Winkworth

Dame Daphne Littlewood Winkworth, relict of a rather celebrated historian, the late P.B. Winkworth. A tall, dark, handsome lightheavyweight with a formidable personality, mother of Gertrude and Huxley, sister of Charlotte, Emmeline, Harriet and Myrtle Dev...
Empress Of Blandings

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About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).