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Blandings Castle

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Blandings Castle

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: James Saxon
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The ivied walls of Blandings Castle have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it.

For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is off her food ­- and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence's sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the horrible prospect of the summer fête - twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the custody of the pumpkin.

Skipping an ocean and a continent, Wodehouse also treats us to some unputdownable stories of excess from the monstrous Golden Age of Hollywood.

©1971 The Estate of P.G. Wodehouse (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Literature & Fiction England Funny Witty Comedy

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Just calling each track a chapter is useless! They're stories, with seperate titles. Not being able to tell which chapter is which story and even which stories are in the book, is so annoying. And surely not rocket science to remedy. And it's the same on all Audible short story collections, it seems.

This book contains seperate stories

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It made me laugh a lot and I would definitely recommend it to get you through a long journey

Very funny

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What a shame James died in 1986! RIP! A perfect performance, he did Plum proud!

Excellent

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Here we have 4 Blandings stories, mostly featuring Freddie Threepwood: 1 Bobby Wickham story - the only one which isn’t part of the Jeeves canon, I think: and 4 Mr Mulliner Hollywood stories.
They are all well read and well performed, without hitting the heights achieved by Martin Jarvis. For me, James Saxon doesn’t “get” Lord Emsworth, and the “mild and dreamy peer” keeps coming across as a choleric colonel.
I’ve never really taken to the Hollywood stories, although they are quite good, so these grated on me a little.
All in all, a good collection, but not a favourite for me

Good, but not great

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Each story is a perfect glistening example of a masterly technique. Utterly frivolous and inconsequential and yet full of a profound and sympathetic humanity.

Short story jewels

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