Series: Blandings Castle
by Author P.G. Wodehouse
Pigs Have Wings (2000)
Wodehouse once described his way of working as 'making a musical comedy without the music' - which, as is typical of his phrasing, is literally true, but suggests another world of possibility. His books sing with the music of words, a light playfulness and an absolute mastery of ironic shadow. It...
Heavy Weather (2001)
Service With a Smile (2013)
I read Galahad at Blandings a couple months ago to balance out the continent of words that is Les Miserables. Service With a Smile could serve no such altruistic purpose and therefore had no right to be read as soon as it was.But I finished reading a couple of good, but serious (and a little self...
A Pelican at Blandings (1980)
I started mid-reading review, which is out of tradition for me. I add books on Goodreads mostly AFTER I finish reading them. But, was compelled to share some of Wodehouse's amusing sentences."It appears that there is harmless innocent American of the name of Wilbur Trout whose only fault is that ...
Galahad at Blandings (2000)
What is the cure for over a thousand pages of French literature? Just a couple hundred of a solid P.G. Wodehouse tale. Sorry, that was set up like a joke, but it's just a sincere answer. I feel bad. I suppose I should include a joke somewhere in this review to make up for it. Anyway, my point is,...
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (2012)
Pongo Twisleton is in need of cash so he applies to his wealthy friend Horace Davenport. Horace has troubles of his own: first, his uncle, the Duke of Dunstable broke up the sitting-room furniture with a poker and then Horace's fiance, Valerie Twisleton broke up with him because he hired a privat...
Blandings Castle (2012)
Did I enjoy Blandings Castle? Oh I say, rather! I've been to Blandings before, usually with Uncle Fred, but this is the first time I've felt like a resident of the asylum. Though similar to say a Totleigh Towers of the Jeeves & Wooster world, Blandings nonetheless has its own set of rules, its ow...
Sunset at Blandings (2001)
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1252410.html[return][return]This was Wodehouse's last book, unfinished when he died aged 93 in 1975, here published just as he left it, with extensive notes by Richard Usborne. It is a Blandings Castle story, with the usual clutch of romances: one of the Emsworth nie...
Summer Lightning (2012)
goodreads tells me i've now read seventeen wodehouse books, with sixteen of those being novels and short stories -- the other is a wonderful collection i can only highly recommend, called Wodehouse On Wodehouse that is part memoir of his time writing for musical theatre, and partly selected lette...
Full Moon (2006)
Full review/Пълно ревюClick, click :) Следпрочитно:Удхаус е един от малцината автори, които могат да използват все една и съща формула, и пак да им се получава. Колкото и много нещастни влюбени двойки да сме виждали преди в книгите му, пак с трепет ще следим съдбата им тук, подпомагана от съветит...