Uncle Fred in the Springtime

p.g. wodehouse

Pongo Twistleton is in a state of financial embarrassment, again. Uncle Fred, meanwhile, has been asked by Lord Emsworth to foil a plot to steal the Empress, his prize pig. Along with Polly Pott (daughter of old Mustard), they form a deputation to Blandings Castle, bent on doing a "bit of good".

Genres fictionhumorclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literature20th centurynovelshistorical fictionliterature

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1939

Series

Uncle Fred

This edition

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Published: April 15, 2004 by Everyman
ISBN: 9781841591308
ASIN: 1841591300
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...
Rupert Baxter

Secretary to Lord Emsworth, also to J. Horace Jeavons and later to the Duke of Dunstable...
Horace Pendlebury-davenport

Horace Pendlebury-Davenport, a wealthy Drone living at 52 Bloxham Mansions, Park Lane in Uncle Fred in the Springtime, where he is engaged to Valerie Twistleton. Still engaged to Valerie in The Shadow Passes, where he successfully defends his Drones Darts...
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Valerie Twistleton

Valerie Twistleton, sister of Pongo, niece of Frederick Twistleton, Earl of Ickenham; a tall, handsome girl engaged to Horace Pendlebury-Davenport in Uncle Fred in the Springtime and The Shadow Passes, his wife in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit....

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).