Galahad at Blandings
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- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2009
Summary
Galahad can’t abide broken hearts, so when a rash of broken couples crops up—along with a meddlesome mother and a drunken pig—he tries to put everything right.
This is a splendid piece of Wodehouse foolery; one of the sunniest and funniest books for years.
Lord Emsworth’s prized pig, the Empress of Blandings, is at the centre of Wodehouse’s hilarious tale of mistaken identity, the triumph of young love, and general mayhem among the twits at Blandings Castle.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841591612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841591610 |
| Author: | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 137mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE |
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About The Author
P.G. Wodehouse
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.
Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.
In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.
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