Blandings Castle (book)

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Blandings Castle is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935, by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 20 September 1935, by Doubleday Doran, New York, though all its stories had previously appeared in British or American magazines. The full title reads Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

The first six stories all take place at the book's namesake Blandings Castle; they are set some time between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and those of Summer Lightning (1929). The seventh concerns Bobbie Wickham, an acquaintance and sometime fiancée of Bertie Wooster, and the last five are narrated by Mr Mulliner.

1 Contents
2 Television
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Contents

"The Custody of the Pumpkin"
- US: Saturday Evening Post, 19 November 1924
- UK: Strand, December 1924
"Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best"
- UK: Strand, June 1926
- US: Liberty, 5 June 1926
"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey"
- US: Liberty, 9 July 1927
- UK: Strand, August 1927
"Company for Gertrude"
- UK: Strand, September 1928
- US: Cosmopolitan, October 1928
"The Go-getter"
- US: Cosmopolitan, March 1931
- UK: Strand, August 1931
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"
- US: Liberty, 6 October 1928
- UK: Strand , November 1928
"Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure"
- US: Liberty, 23 January 1926
- UK: Strand, February 1926
"Monkey Business"
- UK: Strand, December 1932
"The Nodder"
- UK: Strand, January 1933
"The Juice of an Orange"
- UK: Strand, February 1933
"The Rise of Minna Nordstrom"
- UK: Strand, April 1933
"The Castaways"
- UK: Strand, June 1933

[edit] Television

Several of the Blandings shorts from this collection were adapted for television by the BBC, broadcast in February and March 1967 in six half-hour episodes. They starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth, Derek Nimmo as Freddie Threepwood, Meriel Forbes as Lady Constance and Stanley Holloway as Beach. Unfortunately the master tapes of all but the first part ("Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"), were wiped, and no known copies exist.