The final Uncle Fred novel marks his return to Blandings Castle to relieve Lord Emsworth's woes: a nagging secretary, prankster Church Lads, and a plot to thieve his prize-winning sow. Uncle Fred must serve up his brand of sweetness and light to ensure that everything turns out...
A Blandings novel
As a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament. It comes hard to him,...
George Cyril Wellbeloved, porcher de Lord Emsworth, et Lavender Briggs, sa secretaire, se laissent soudoyer par le Duc de Dunstable qui veut leur faire enlever l'Imperatrice, l'inestimable truie de concours, pour la lui revendre trois mille livres. Heureusement, Lord Ickenham...
The description of his ancestral seat as an earthly paradise would, at present, have struck its proprietor as ironical, full as it was with unwanted and troublesome inhabitants. What Lord Emsworth needed above all was a rugged ally at his side to remove from Blandings its...