Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best

by P. G. Wodehouse, Martin Jarvis (Read by)

Overview

Blandings Castle is the home of Lord Emsworth, who likes nothing better than to potter at home in his enormous castle garden. But his rural idyll is once again set to be disturbed. No peace is possible when his sister Constance is let loose, and she is constantly trying to reorganise the household! Without great success . . .

The nieces are unhappy, McAllister leaves at a difficult time, and then The Empress of Blandings - Emsworth's prize pig - goes off her pig-food! Set this against the continuing tangled love affairs of Freddie Threepwood, and the stage is once more set for classic Wodehouse hilarity!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857865762
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Series:	Blandings Castle Series
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English writer of novels, stories, and musical theater, best known for his Jeeves and Blandings Castle series. Martin Jarvis is an accomplished actor who has been described by Vanity Fair as "the Olivier of audiobooks." He divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1881

Date of Death:

February 14, 1975

Place of Birth:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Place of Death:

Southampton, New York

Education:

Dulwich College, 1894-1900

Editorial Reviews

A master, a genius of inventiveness and versatility, brilliant in his use of language, more adroit than almost any novelist since Dickens at working out a complex package of plot, sub-plot, and sub-sub-plot'

Daily Telegraph - Susan Hill

Jarvis is the lick

The Guardian

"Martin Jarvis brings the madcap world of Bertie Wooster and his brilliant valet Jeeves to life with canny comedic timing."  —Publishers Weekly on Very Good, Jeeves

"The greatest comic writer ever."  —Douglas Adams on P.G. Wodehouse

From the Publisher

These nine stories, all but two written in the 1930s when Wodehouse was arguably at the height of his powers, are delightful. While the Blandings Castle stories are not as perfect as the Bertie Wooster or Mr. Mulliner tales, they still display the master’s verbal wit and unrivaled skill at plot contrivance. Clarence Threepwood, the ninth Earl of Emsworth, and his son Freddie are bumbling but charming oafs constantly getting into spots of bother over a butler, a gardener, a small girl, a pig, several attractive young women, and numerous dogs. The material could be deflated by a hammy delivery, but the sublime Martin Jarvis both understands and respects the benighted characters. Probably the best interpreter of Wodehouse, Jarvis outdoes himself here with an amazing variety of voices.

Verdict Even those unfamiliar with Wodehouse should be entertained.—Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr.
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