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Author: P. G. Wodehouse
First Published: 1947
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Farce
Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century, after World War I
Setting: Blandings Castle, an estate in Great Britain
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

Characters Discussed

Clarence Threepwood, the ninth earl of Emsworth, the vague and woolly-headed master of Blandings Castle, somewhere in Shropshire. In the opinion of his younger brother Galahad—who has had ample opportunity to form a reasoned judgment—his IQ is about thirty points lower than that of a not-too-agile-minded jellyfish. He is ruled by whichever of his ten sisters happens to be in residence at Blandings, in this case Lady Hermione Wedge. The widowed father of Freddie Threepwood, he is devoted chiefly to his black Berkshire sow, the Empress of Blandings.

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