Blandings Castle
Originally published in 1935, this book contains 12 short  stories, only half of which are about Lord Emsworth and his  Blandings estate. The rest are a miscellany, most of which are  told by Mr. Mulliner, the indefatigable liar of the Angler's  Rest. Moreover, while British actor James Saxon's reading is  certainly competent, it doesn't reach the levels of inspiration  of such other Wodehouse readers as Jonathan Cecil and Frederick  Davidson. For an author who wrote nearly 100 books, Wodehouse  struck a pretty high average; however, not everything he wrote  was unalloyed gold. Blandings Castle contains flecks of the  noble metal but also a large enough proportion of base metals to  cause one to pause before purchasing this volume. Essential  reading to Emsworth devotees but otherwise of only peripheral  interest. R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CACopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.