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The stories were written between 1915 and 1975. The series of stories taking place at the castle, in its environs and involving its denizens have come to be known as the "Blandings books", or, in a phrase used by Wodehouse in his preface to the 1969 reprint of the first book, "the Blandings Castle Saga". [1]
The following 10 short stories feature Blandings Castle, its owner Lord Emsworth or members of his family. There are also 11 Blandings novels including an unfinished novel. The short story "Life with Freddie" is not set in Blandings Castle but contains Lord Emsworth's son, Freddie Threepwood. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" was rewritten from an ...
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins , London, and, as Blandings Castle , in the United States on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran , New York. [ 1 ]
Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 18 August 1939 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 25 August 1939 by Herbert Jenkins, London. [1] It is set at the idyllic Blandings Castle, home of Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, the
Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, [1] and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1900s; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called "Threepwood Cottage", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family ...
Sunset at Blandings is an unfinished novel by P. G. Wodehouse published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London, on 17 November 1977 and in the United States by Simon & Schuster, New York, 19 September 1978. [3] Wodehouse was working on the novel when he died in 1975. The book's first edition publisher, Chatto & Windus, gave the book ...
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley” was adapted for the screen in the 1960 French film “Purple Noon,” but audiences know it better from the 1999 hit featuring Matt ...
In 1985, the story was adapted for radio as part of the Blandings radio series. The episode was titled "Lord Emsworth Grows a Beard". [10] The story was adapted into the fourth episode of the second series of the Blandings television series, also titled "Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best", which aired in March 2014.