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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.Rating Containing Books Sunset at Blandings (Blandings Castle #12)
Ratings: 4.07 From 899 Users | 45 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Sunset at Blandings (Blandings Castle #12)
I have read several books by Wodehouse and this book was just more of the same. I felt like Id already read it once before, actually. I checked my Goodreads book history and saw that according to my records, I havent read this book already, so I guess its just a very typical Wodehouse book. I will say that because it was the last book Wodehouse ever wrote, and one that he never got to finish, it is a sad read. It might be a fun book to keep in a collection with better Wodehouse books, or to readSadness is not a word I would normally associate with Wodehouse,the man who brought me so many smiles.It was the very last book,by the creator of Bertie Wooster,Jeeves and Blandings Castle.All good things,after all,must come to an end.It was a work still in progress when Wodehouse died !
Sunset at Blandings is the first draft of PGW 's last novel ( work in progress ) when he passed away at the age of 93. The master of humour had lost none of his charm in this book. The usual Blandings plot - an imposter smuggled into the Castle by Gally as a painter commissioned to paint the Empress , sisters of Lord Emswoth against the idea, a niece not allowed to marry her impecunious suitor......wonder how it would have all ended.
This can`t be regarded as a first-rate Wodehouse, nor a first-rate Blandings story because it is an unfinished first draft. The book represents 16 of the planned 21 chapters that were on 90 typed manuscript pages found in Wodehouse`s hospital room upon his death at age 93. It is the 11th and last of the Blandings stories. His previous 1974 best seller was the last of the Jeeves and Wooster stories. It is nice that he rounded off his long writing career with novels from those two beloved series.
Intriguing look at an unfinished Wodehouse. Not for any but the dedicated Plummer, though.
The novel Wodehouse was working on when he died. I read the Overlook Press edition, and it had a bunch of extra material (e.g. a review of the outlines Wodehouse has, so you know how it ends, not to mention a reconstruction of the original for Blandings, not to mention the Empress). Really worthwhile.
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