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| Original Title: | Sunset at Blandings |
| ISBN: | 0140284656 (ISBN13: 9780140284652) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Blandings Castle #12 |
| Characters: | Clarence Threepwood, Sebastian Beach, Galahad Threepwood, Freddie Threepwood, Daphne Littlewood Winkworth, Empress of Blandings, John Robinson, George Ovens, James Piper, Claude Duff, Brenda Piper, Florence Moresby, Victoria Underwood, E.B. Murchison, Diana Phipps, Marilyn Poole, Jeff Bennison, Stiffy Bates, Messmore Breamworthy, Kevin Moresby |
P.G. Wodehouse
Paperback | Pages: 151 pages Rating: 4.07 | 899 Users | 45 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sunset at Blandings (Blandings Castle #12) |
| Author | : | P.G. Wodehouse |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 151 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2001 by Penguin Books (first published November 1st 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Comedy. Classics. Literature. European Literature. British Literature |
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After falling in love with a man her mother deemed unsuitable, Victoria is whisked away to Blandings Castle until she "comes to her senses." Meanwhile, her uncle Sir James Piper has to take her to Blandings and finds that an old flame of his is staying there. How can these hearts ever be mended? Uncle Galahad to the rescue!Here we have the unfinished novel P.G. Wodehouse was working on at his hospital bed at age 93. Even though it's a fragment, all the Wodehouse trademarks are there: lost love, imposters, and misunderstandings abound. Uncle Galahad uses his smooth pimpery in order to make things right. A Wodehouse novel is like running into an old friend and picking up right where you left off.
Aside from the novel fragment that takes up half of this book, there are also Wodehouse's semi-coherent notes on how the book was to end, speculations on the real life location of Blandings Castle based on travel times mentioned in the text, and end notes galore. While I would have preferred a complete novel to end the Blandings Saga, there wasn't much to complain about here, as long as the reader is aware it's a fragment coming in and not a complete novel.
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Ratings: 4.07 From 899 Users | 45 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books Sunset at Blandings (Blandings Castle #12)
Tons of fun, as are all the Wodehouse books. I've read plenty of them and never seem to tire of them. The collected short stories provide plenty of amusement for someone who wants to have just a taste of "Plum."It's hard to rate a book that was unfinished when the author died. I normally don't like these kind of last attempts to capitalize on an author's popularity, but I had read Wodehouse's last Blanding's Castle book. He has such great wit, and I found myself laughing out loud. It's too bad he wasn't able to finish it.
That's not quite true. I finished the book but not the story. No one has. Not even the author. P. G. Wodehouse died before this could be finished. There's a valiant attempt to show with the author's notes how it might have come out, but one will never know for sure. From the footnotes and notes, we see fascinating insights into how the author crafted his tales and he was still struggling with details. Still, it is great to read even the slightest scrap or sop of Wodehouse, no matter how
After falling in love with a man her mother deemed unsuitable, Victoria is whisked away to Blandings Castle until she "comes to her senses." Meanwhile, her uncle Sir James Piper has to take her to Blandings and finds that an old flame of his is staying there. How can these hearts ever be mended? Uncle Galahad to the rescue!Here we have the unfinished novel P.G. Wodehouse was working on at his hospital bed at age 93. Even though it's a fragment, all the Wodehouse trademarks are there: lost love,
Last Blandings novel, in hand and unfinished at Wodehouse's death. So sad. Delightful as ever.---On Vicky:"Here was plainly a niece whose soul had been passed through the wringer, a niece who had drained the bitter cup and, what is more, had found a dead mouse at the bottom of it." On Jeff: "'Jeff,' he said, 'you look like the seven years of Famine we read of in Scripture. You could go on and play King Lear without make-up.'"
The novel itself is about two stars; the supplemental material adds anothern (too bad spellcheck doesn't recognize this common hoosier term). The manuscript was a rough draft when Wodehouse died (16 of 22 chapters written; much revision evidently not yet done). It's a little flat, but PGW had not yet added the shine.The extra material is interesting. One is a 15-page discourse that looks at all the train times from all the Blandings novels and tries to work out where in Shropshire the fictional
Wodehouse was working on this novel, subsequently titled Sunset at Blandings when he died and such is his, and Blandings, popularity that even some thirty years after his death and its initial posthumous publication that it is still in print. The part of this book that is the first half of the last Blandings story sets the plot out beautifully and it is, of course, a tragedy that it wasnt finished. However this is a Wodehouse Blandings story and we know the leads eventually elope and the good
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