num_pages: 1
description: The setting is Blandings Castle in rural Shropshire England, idyllic country seat of eccentric Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth. It is summer time and Blandings is bursting with bizarre visitors including his Lordship's sister Lady Constance and Alaric, Duke of Dunstable. The Duke brings with him a recently purchased painting of a rather fetching nude which, it seems, everyone wants to get their hands on. American visitor, Wilbur Trout believes the nude resembles his latest ex-wife, whilst Lord Emsworth is convinced the portrait bears more than a passing resemblance to his peerless prize pig, the Empress! Soon Blandings becomes a hornet's nest of theft, forgery, imposters - and romance. Luckily Emsworth's brother, Sir Galahad, illustrious member of the old Pelican Club, is on hand to sort things out...
language: English
title: A Pelican At Blandings
titlecomplete: A Pelican At Blandings
characters: Joe Bender, Galahad Threepwood, Wilbur Trout, Howard Chesney, Vanessa Polk, John Stiffy Halliday, Cuthbert Price, Freddie Threepwood, Ma Balsam, G.G. Clutterbuck, Linda Gilpin, Mrs. Willoughby, Alaric Pendlebury-Davenport, Alfred Voules, J.G. Banks, Abercrombie Fitch, Penny Vail, Sebastian Beach, Wolff-Lehmann, Mortimer Bayliss, Empress of Blandings, Constance Keeble, John Robinson, Clarence Threepwood, Dora Garland
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3005
series: Blandings Castle
publisher: Canongate CSA Audio