Crisis, wearing a variety of habits, saunters in to Castle Blandings and upsets the hard-won applecart of the peace-loving thirteenth earl.
From Library Journal
One of Wodehouse's most popular characters, the addled Lord Emsworth, is once again harried by unwanted houseguests who cut into his time with the Empress of Blandings, his prize-winning pig. Among the foul guests is a tediously opinionated and self-invited duke. The duke has also invited along a young American, to whom he plans to sell a painting he has purchased solely in order to skin the latter. Things start getting sticky when the painting (which may be a fake) is stolen, and other guests prove not to be all they claim. Wodehouse was 88 years old when he published this novel in 1969. It consequently lacks the cohesiveness of his earlier Blandings books but is, nevertheless, full of delights--which are made all the more delightful by Nigel Lambert's spirited reading. -R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever." -Douglas Adams
"Overlook Press is publishing a set of clothbound collector''s editions of the master''s work. They''re beautiful books, much welcome." -Bookforum
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Crisis, wearing a variety of habits, saunters in to Castle Blandings and upsets the hard-won applecart of the peace-loving thirteenth earl.
From Library Journal
One of Wodehouse's most popular characters, the addled Lord Emsworth, is once again harried by unwanted houseguests who cut into his time with the Empress of Blandings, his prize-winning pig. Among the foul guests is a tediously opinionated and self-invited duke. The duke has also invited along a young American, to whom he plans to sell a painting he has purchased solely in order to skin the latter. Things start getting sticky when the painting (which may be a fake) is stolen, and other guests prove not to be all they claim. Wodehouse was 88 years old when he published this novel in 1969. It consequently lacks the cohesiveness of his earlier Blandings books but is, nevertheless, full of delights--which are made all the more delightful by Nigel Lambert's spirited reading.
-R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever."
-Douglas Adams
"Overlook Press is publishing a set of clothbound collector''s editions of the master''s work. They''re beautiful books, much welcome."
-Bookforum