num_pages: 275
description: "I don't know if you happen to know what the word 'excesses' means, but these are what Pongo's Uncle Fred, when in London, invariably commits." When the dastardly Duke of Dunstable plots to steal Lord Emsworth's pig, Empress of Blandings, the wily Uncle Fred--aka the Earl of Ickenham--is called in to thwart him. To that end, the Earl arrives at Blandings Castle under false pretenses, posing as pompous 'loony-doctor' Sir Roderick Glossop, accompanied by two other imposters, one of them the unfortunate Pongo; a bookie turned private detective; an angry sixteen-stone poet; a suspicious dancing secretary, and Lord Emsworth's pink-faced heir who will keep pointing his gun in the wrong direction. In other words: business as usual in Wodehouse's enchanted England.
language: English
title: Uncle Fred In The Springtime
titlecomplete: Uncle Fred In The Springtime
characters: George Budd, Coggs, Webster, Valerie Twistleton, Erb, Cecily Threepwood, Alric Gilpin, Freddie Threepwood, Richard P. Little, Polly Pott, Alaric Gilpin, Edward Robinson, Reginald G. Twistleton-Twistleton, Claude Cattermole Potter-Pirbright, Alaric Pendlebury-Davenport, Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, Alexander Charles Prosser, Charles, Barmy, Roderick Glossop, Bates, Sebastian Beach, Galhad Threepwood, Empress of Blandings, Rupert Baxter, George Ovens, George Threepwood, Constance Keeble, Claude Pott, Clarence Threepwood, Henry, Horace Pendlebury-Davenport, Countess of Ickenham
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5309
series: Blandings Castle, The Drones Club, Uncle Fred
publisher: Harry N. Abrams