Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best
October 24, 2009
As described on the back cover of this delightful collection of some of Wodehouse’s finest short stories:
- Blandings Castle is the home of Lord Emsworth, whose IQ may be some thirty points below that of an absent-minded jellyfish. His Lordship loves nothing better than to potter among his flowers, but even in this garden of Eden there is an influx of serpents ready to poison the peace.
- His corrosive-tongued sister Constance is forever trying to reorganize his household. McAllister, official trainer of the prize pumpkin, leaves at a critical moment; that peach among pigs, the Empress of Blandings, goes off her food; and there is an outbreak of lawlessness not unconnected with an airgun and the trouser-seat of the abominable Baxter. And then there are the tangled love affairs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood. Blandings is a place where anything can happen…”
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