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- Wodehouse Beyond Jeeves and Wooster
- Differences from Jeeves and Wooster
- “Summer Lightning”: Comedy Excellence
- “Summer Lightning: The Quotes
- Quotes on Lord Emsworth
- Summer Lightning: Quotes on Blandings Itself
- An Exquisite Plum Preface
- What to Do Next
My recent blog Reading Wodehouse: a plea for help recorded that I had finished the main body of Jeeves and Wooster stories. I sought advice on what other Wodehouse was out there, and what I should read next. I received a host of helpful comments (at the link: feel free to take a look). Thanks, everyone. In the light of this advice I have started re...
What struck me about Summer Lightning, at the risk of getting a bit technical, was that whereas the Jeeves and Wooster stories are narrated by Bertie himself, Summer Lightning is told from the point of view of numerous characters, including the efficient Baxter, Beach the butler, Hugh Carmody, Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and others, including an om...
Despite this apparent handicap, Summer Lightning scales the highest peaks of comedic excellence. My laugh-out-loud-ometer broke. Part of this is down to the terrific characterisation, including the magnificent Lord Emsworth. Part is down to plotting – amongst the best I have found in a Wodehouse to date. And part is down to the setting of Blandings...
Herewith a few quotes from Summer Lightningwhich caught my eye: 1. A thoroughly misspent life had left the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, contrary to the most elementary justice, in what appeared to be perfect, even exuberantly perfect physical condition. 2. A keen observer might have noted a defensiveness in her manner. She looked like a girl preparing ...
[Lord Emsworth] surveyed the preparations for the meal with vague amiability through rimless piece-nez. ‘Tea?’ ‘Yes, your lordship.’ ‘Oh?’ said Lord Emsworth. ‘Ah? Tea, eh? Tea? Yes. Tea....Lord Emsworth rose. So long as he insisted on wearing an old shooting-jacket with holes in the elbows and letting his tie slip down and show the head of a brass stud, he could never hope to be com...‘What are you going do do about it?’ Lord Emsworth shrugged his shoulders hopelessly. He generally did when people asked him what he was going to do about things.From boyhood up, Lord Emsworth had possessed an intelligence about as mean as an intelligence can be without actually being placed under restraint.For two hours after this absolutely nothing happened in the grounds of Blandings Castle. At the end of that period there sounded through the mellow, drowsy stillness a drowsy, mellow chiming. It...In the pantry, in shirtsleeved ease, Beach, the butler, sat taking the well-earned rest of a man whose silver is all done and who has no further duties to perform till lunchtime.Sunshine, calling to all right-thinking men to come out and revel in its heartening warmth, poured in at the windows of the great library of Blandings Castle.Blandings Castle basked in the afterglow of a golden summer evening. Only a memory now was the storm which, two hours since, had raged with such violence through its parks, pleasure grounds and me...I should perhaps record that my edition of Summer Lightning includes a preface by Plum himself, in which he laments that he discovered when publication came around that two novels of the same name had already been published in England, and three in the United States. “I can only express the modest hope,” he says, “that this story will be considered...
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Summer Lightning is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Chili Bouchier and Horace Hodges. It is based on the 1929 novel Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse .
Two men search for something in the woods. In the night, there is a lightning storm.
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