Sunset at Blandings

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This joyful, inexhaustibly funny story will be as precious to the many thousands of Wode-house readers as would a permanent record of the last night of the best loved and longest running comedy the world will ever know. Sunsei at Blandings is P. G. Wodehouse's '
last and unfinished novel.
We believe the book to be a delight for I the sake of the novel alone. It runs in ti
Wodehouse's text to the end of the sixteenth chapter of a planned twenty-two chapters. ^
But in other respects too will it be treasured by Wodehouse devotees. The book contains a selection of the author's own working notes, of his first hand-written draft for the book, and of his detailed notes on the final stages of the plot. Here, then, is an opportunity to see at first hand the meticulous craft of the Master.
The author's notes have been selected and edited by Richard Usborne, the acknowledged Wodehouse scholar, who has appended an essay on the novel itself and written a long-awaited, much needed... Tovább

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sr.
This joyful, inexhaustibly funny story will be as precious to the many thousands of Wode-house readers as would a permanent record of the last night of the best loved and longest running comedy the world will ever know. Sunsei at Blandings is P. G. Wodehouse's '
last and unfinished novel.
We believe the book to be a delight for I the sake of the novel alone. It runs in ti
Wodehouse's text to the end of the sixteenth chapter of a planned twenty-two chapters. ^
But in other respects too will it be treasured by Wodehouse devotees. The book contains a selection of the author's own working notes, of his first hand-written draft for the book, and of his detailed notes on the final stages of the plot. Here, then, is an opportunity to see at first hand the meticulous craft of the Master.
The author's notes have been selected and edited by Richard Usborne, the acknowledged Wodehouse scholar, who has appended an essay on the novel itself and written a long-awaited, much needed treatise on the topography of Blandings, for which maps and diagrams have been made by lonicus.
And how is it at Blandings in the end ? A niece is incarcerated. Galahad smuggles in her beloved, a penniless artist, to paint • the Empress and at last it seems that that senior pig will be hung in the Gallery. The Chancellor of the Exchequer comes to stay, shadowed even on the croquet lawn by an escort from the Yard. And what of Lord Emsworth ? He has drawn upon the utmost ounce of his resolution and put a brand new sister to flight, and we take our leave of him - and of Beach and Gaily and the others - ringing down the curtain on the happiest of all sagas, in absolute command of his Castle.
p. G. WODEHOUSE, 1881-1975, knighted New Year's Day 1975, died on St Valentine's Day, in Long Island, New York. Since 1955 he had held American and British citizenships.
He wrote nearly a hundred books: novels, collections of short stories, essays, autobiography. He did three stretches of highly paid script writing in Hollywood in the 1930's. He had more than 300 lyrics for songs published. He wrote 'Bill' to Jerome Kern's music in Showboat. He was part-author, translator, adaptor or lyric writer for some thirty stage shows, including many successful musical comedies with his great friend Guy Bolton.
What he enjoyed most in life was working, and much of the material that makes this book was on the table in his room when he died aged ninety-three.
Richard Usborne's first book was Clubland Heroes, a critical study of John Buchan, 'Sapper', and Dornford Yates. Wodehouse liked the book and approved the choice of Mr Usborne as the author of a study of his books. Hence Wodehouse at Work (1961), and, revised and up-dated, Wodehouse at Work to the End (1977).
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