- Blandings Castle (England : Imaginary place), Classic Literature, Fiction, Nobility
"'I don't know if you happen to know what the word "excesses" means, but these are what Pongo's Uncle Fred, when in London, invariably commits.' When the dastardly Duke of Dunstable plots to steal Lord Emsworth's pig, Empress of Blandings, the wily Uncle Fred--aka the Earl of Ickenham--is called in to thwart him.
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Comic, warm, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- New York, McClelland & Stewart, Everyman's Library
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781409064732
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“The door of the Drones Club swung open, and a young man in form-fitting tweeds came down the steps and started to walk westwards.”
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. 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 pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admir
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