About this title: This book is a Blandings novel. Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves - among them the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780394720265ISBN:0394720261
Description: Good. Very nice clean, tight copy of book-One crease on binding, a cover crease that caused by storage but lays flat and slight yellowing of pages from age is what brought from very good to good. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. B00190FHNU Dell #357. Mapback Edition. Cover edge curled. Dim moisture stain at upper margins of pages. Dim stain on covers. Cover bright and text very readable. 240 pages. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, Middlesex
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good- No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Has light shelfwear, covers lightly soiled, prev. owners pen name on FFE, internally clean. read more
Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell
Description: Very Good+ Mass Market Paperback Dell 357, about mid-forties, map back. Minimal cover wear, with minor reading crease barely visible to front. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hutchinson
Date Published: 1961-12
ISBN-13:9780257659992ISBN:0257659994
Description: Very Good. Dust jacket has edge bumping and slight shelf wear. Unmarked, pages clean & bright, binding tight. *Ships Next Business day* read more
"As always, Wodehouse leaves me cozily and hilariously satisfied. This book was perhaps not the best of Wodehouse's, as the plot didn't tie itself up too well at the end, but oh! still, what a book!
It is unfortunate that Wodehouse is now gone, I would have liked to send him a fan letter."
"Bless P.G. Wodehouse for giving me something so sparkling and delightful that I laughed and laughed out loud! He is a genius! Next time I am in a blue funk, I will be reading one of his books. Probably next week!"
"Wodehouse at his best--quirky, larger-than-life characters, half a dozen twists and turns, shocking facts revealed in the last sentence of a paragraph.
But one doesn't read Wodehouse for suspense. One reads Wodehouse because he is tremendously witty. And in Leave it to Psmith, he is at the top of his game.
The plot is hardly important but it is one that might be instantly recognized as similar to the one presented in The Code of the Woosters, or almost identical to the one presented in The Plot that Thickened, which is also about a household full of loonies all trying to steal a necklace in order to settle debts, secure the hand of a woman, etc.
Formulaic settings aside, this book is a joy to read. I recommend it highly."
"Despite an overlong exposition, once the stage is set, the comedy and high jinks never let up. The plot takes more twists and turns and is more intricate than any Wodehouse story I've read yet, and the dialogue given to Psmith is nearly the funniest and most endearing I've encountered in literature.
Sacrilegious, I know, but I may have enjoyed it more than, "The Code of the Woosters.""
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