Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 19:55:19 GMT 10
Something newHave you ever read Wodehouse ? No? Well, then you really need to get started. Many years ago I took Blandings Castle out of curiosity and was amazed. Wodehouse has a simple style, but in his writing you can feel all the English atmosphere. His novels are characterized by light, but recognizable humor. English humor, but pleasant, which makes the stories easy to read and flow. As if we were watching one of those movies like Babe Goes to Town , remember that? I leave you with the synopsis and an excerpt from the novel Something New , the first novel in the Blandings cycle.
Synopsis of the book A thin thread connects number 7/a Arundell Street, Leicester Square, a "depressed and dilapidated" area of London, to the sumptuous Blandings Castle. The Special Data crisp air of spring is in fact a harbinger of changes: for Ashe Marson, a bored mystery writer, but also for her neighbor, Joan Valentine, who is tired of trying to get by in the slums of the 7/a. The two will find themselves participating, in the unlikely role of investigators, at the reception organized by Lord Emsworth in Blandings Castle to celebrate the imminent wedding between his cadet son, the Honorable Freddie Threepwood, and the beautiful Aline Peters, daughter of a American millionaire.
The future in-laws couldn't be more different. Lord Emsworth is the stereotype of a certain British nobility: imperturbable and absent-minded, his only interest is the flowers and plants of his estate, entrusted to the obsessive care of his secretary, the efficient Baxter. Mr. Peters, on the other hand, is a businessman who, forced by an annoying dyspepsia to slow down, relaxes only when he talks about his beetle collection. And the disappearance of the showpiece of the series, the precious Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty, jeopardizes the peace of the castle. While Ashe and Joan try to recover the object, tenderness arises between them, and at the same time the idyll between Freddie and Aline is undermined by the shameless courtship of George Emerson, a policeman on duty in Hong Kong who is in love with his betrothed.
Synopsis of the book A thin thread connects number 7/a Arundell Street, Leicester Square, a "depressed and dilapidated" area of London, to the sumptuous Blandings Castle. The Special Data crisp air of spring is in fact a harbinger of changes: for Ashe Marson, a bored mystery writer, but also for her neighbor, Joan Valentine, who is tired of trying to get by in the slums of the 7/a. The two will find themselves participating, in the unlikely role of investigators, at the reception organized by Lord Emsworth in Blandings Castle to celebrate the imminent wedding between his cadet son, the Honorable Freddie Threepwood, and the beautiful Aline Peters, daughter of a American millionaire.
The future in-laws couldn't be more different. Lord Emsworth is the stereotype of a certain British nobility: imperturbable and absent-minded, his only interest is the flowers and plants of his estate, entrusted to the obsessive care of his secretary, the efficient Baxter. Mr. Peters, on the other hand, is a businessman who, forced by an annoying dyspepsia to slow down, relaxes only when he talks about his beetle collection. And the disappearance of the showpiece of the series, the precious Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty, jeopardizes the peace of the castle. While Ashe and Joan try to recover the object, tenderness arises between them, and at the same time the idyll between Freddie and Aline is undermined by the shameless courtship of George Emerson, a policeman on duty in Hong Kong who is in love with his betrothed.