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Originally published
  
12 April 1935

Preceded by
  
A Pelican at Blandings

Genres
  
Fiction, Humour

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Author
  
P. G. Wodehouse

Followed by
  
Full Moon, The Go-Getter

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Works by P G Wodehouse, Blandings Castle Saga books, Humour books

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and, as Blandings Castle, in the United States on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran, New York. All the stories had previously appeared in Strand Magazine (UK) and all except the last in various US magazines.

Contents

Overview

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.

Contents

  • "The Custody of the Pumpkin"
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, 29 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 (as ""Sales Resistance")
  • 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 (as "The Rest Cure")
  • UK: Strand, February 1926
  • "Monkey Business"
  • UK: Strand, December 1932
  • US: American Magazine, December 1932 (as "A Cagey Gorilla")
  • "The Nodder"
  • UK: Strand, January 1933
  • US: American Magazine, January 1933 (as "Love Birds")
  • "The Juice of an Orange"
  • UK: Strand, February 1933
  • US: American Magazine, February 1933 (as "Love on a Diet")
  • "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom"
  • UK: Strand, April 1933
  • US: American Magazine, March 1933 (as "A Star is Born")
  • "The Castaways"
  • UK: Strand, June 1933
  • 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.

    Three of the stories featured in the collection, "Mr Potter takes a Rest Cure", "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom" and "The Nodder", were produced as part of the BBC's Wodehouse Playhouse series, starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins, airing in 1975 and 1976 respectively.

    In 2013. BBC television aired a new series Blandings starring Timothy Spall as Clarence, Jennifer Saunders as Connie, and Jack Farthing as Freddie. Beach was played by Mark Williams (2013) and Tim Vine (2014).

    References

    Blandings Castle and Elsewhere Wikipedia


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