Full Moon (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Romantic farce
- Time of Work: The 1940’s
- Setting: A country estate in aristocratic Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Clarence Earl of Emsworth, Colonel Wedge, Veronica Wedge, Freddie Threepwood, Tipton Plimsoll, Galahad Threepwood (Uncle Gally)
- Genres: Long fiction, Farce, Wit and humor
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Social issues, England or English people, Castles, Pigs, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: England
The Novel
Blandings Castle, a well-used setting for P. G. Wodehouse’s comic novels, is an aristocratic country estate overseen by the venerable but hopelessly absentminded Earl of Emsworth. Once again, it is the stage on which a cast of unwittingly ironic, self-consumed characters roam from social gathering to social gathering and plot both romantic and business couplings among the British aristocracy and the American nouveau riche.
A guest of his brother-in-law, Lord Emsworth, Colonel Wedge ponders with his wife, Hermione, what will happen to his attractive daughter,...
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