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About the Author

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than 80 magazines, including Punch, over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist, once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'.

Reviews

British narrator and actor Martin Jarvis brings his prodigious talents to Blandings Castle, creating a rich and delightful world with his wit, comedic timing and range of voices-each one more pitch perfect and hilarious than the last. In P.G. Wodehouse's classic novel, listeners follow Clarence, ninth earl of Emsworth, and his lunatic but lovable family into an outrageous web of absurdist drama, romance and deception, replete with chorus girls, pig-napping, scandalous memoirs, broken engagements, manuscript thieves, disapproving relatives, private detectives and mistaken identities. Jarvis not only captures the essence of the novel, but creates a listening experience so vivid and warm that his audience will be very reluctant to leave Blandings. An Overlook hardcover. (Apr.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.