Uncle Fred In The Springtime
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Published: April 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781585675272
Subjects: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Fiction - General; Nobility; General; House & Home / Reference; Classics; Humorous; Blandings Castle (England : Imaginary place)
First sentence: The door of the Drones Club swung open, and a young man in form-fitting tweeds came down the steps and started to walk westwards.
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 pretences, 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..."--P. [4] of cover.