Blandings Castle

p.g. wodehouse

Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master.
Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless Jeeves out of sight, on vacation! Poor Bertie nearly becomes unstuck! Young Men in Spats is Wodehouse at his most stories concerning members of the inimitable Drones Club-they may be small of brain and short on cash but they are always good for ingenious adventures. And in The Luck of the Bodkins, the action spans London, New York, Hollywood, and several transatlantic liners, as three dapper young men find themselves in various Wodehousian predicaments concerning their love lives and finances.
Each volume has been reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth. These novels are elegant and essential additions to any Wodehouse fan's library.

Genres fictionhumorshort storiesclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literatureliteraturehistorical fiction20th century

301 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12,1935

Series

Blandings Castle

This edition

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 23, 2002 by Overlook Books
ISBN: 9781585673384
ASIN: 1585673382
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...
Constance Keeble

Lady Constance Keeble, nee Threepwood, widow of the late Joseph Keeble, who made a packet out East; sister of Lord Emsworth and chatelaine of Blandings in Leave It to Psmith, Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!, Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend, Summer Lightning, Go-Gette...
Freddie Threepwood

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Roberta Wickham

Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham, daughter of Sir Cuthbert and Lady Wickham of Skeldings Hall, Herts, volatile and frivolous redhead, object of Berties attentions in Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit, Episode of the Dog McIntosh, Jeeves and the Kid Clementina...
Lady Wickham

Lady Wickham of Skeldings Hall, Hertfordshire, relict of the late Sir Cuthbert Wickham, cousin to Mr. Mulliner, mother of Roberta, old friend of Aunt Agatha. A beaky female built far too closely on the lines of Aunt Agatha for Berties comfort; her e...

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).