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Porvoo : WSOY, 1960.
Description
The hideous Walsingford Hall is home to an odd assortment of coves. The vile premises belong to Sir Buckstone, who is in a little financial difficulty. So for a little monetary help he puts a roof over the heads of people like (among others) Tubby Vanringham, the adoring slave of the coldhearted Miss Whittaker. His brother Joe has fallen head over heels for Sir Buck's daughter Jane. She, however, only has eyes for Adrian Peake, who has already formed a liaison with the terrifying-but superbly wealthy-Princess Dwornitzchek. Is there no end to the confusion?
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LibraryThing member losloper
The vile premises belong to Sir Buckstone, who is in a little financial difficulty. So for a little monetary help he puts a roof over the heads of people like (among others) Tubby Vanringham, the adoring slave of cold-hearted Miss Whittaker. His brother Joe has fallen head over heels for Sir Buck's
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daughter Jane. She, however, only has eyes for Adrian Peake who has already formed a liaison with the terrifying - but superbly wealthy - Princess Dwornitzchek. Is there no end to the confusion? Show Less
LibraryThing member TRWhittier
Classic Wodehouse - complete with Love At First Sight, Impoverished Peers of the Realm, Highly Embarrassing Americans, and confusions galore :)
LibraryThing member leslie.98
One of Wodehouse's better stand-alone novels. I was tickled by the fact that one plotline revolved around a dispute between a young American and his English sweetheart over the pronunciation of various words as well as proper terminology!! As Wodehouse lived for some time in the U.S. this subject
Jonathan Cecil was in fine form with this narration and listening to the abovementioned dispute in audio added to my amusement considerably!
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was one he knew something about :-)Jonathan Cecil was in fine form with this narration and listening to the abovementioned dispute in audio added to my amusement considerably!
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LibraryThing member PhilSyphe
This isn’t one of Mr Wodehouse’s finest works, but there are enough laughs to make “Summer Moonshine” a worthwhile read.
LibraryThing member raizel
The usual suspects: a country house owned by an impoverished nobleman anxious to sell it to a princess, a talented young man who falls in love at first sight with the said nobleman's daughter, who is engaged to a wispy scoundrel who is also engaged to the said princess, who happens to be the very
Interestingly, the stepmother, suspected of killing the young man's father by making his life miserable, gets no comeuppance whatsoever, although her schemes to make others unhappy fail.
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rich and beautiful wicked stepmother of the talented young man, whose brother loves the nobleman's secretary but thinks she has betrayed him and therefore breaks off their engagement so that she gets a process server to give him papers, but the process server turns out to be the nobleman's wife's brother, who remembers when his sister used to be in the chorus of musical comedies. Stealing clothes, along with a deus ex machina, solves everything, of course. Interestingly, the stepmother, suspected of killing the young man's father by making his life miserable, gets no comeuppance whatsoever, although her schemes to make others unhappy fail.
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LibraryThing member leslie.98
One of Wodehouse's better stand-alone novels. I was amused by the fact that one plotline revolved around a dispute between a young American and his English sweetheart over the pronunciation of various words as well as proper terminology!! As Wodehouse lived for some time in the U.S. this subject
Jonathan Cecil was in fine form with this narration and listening to the abovementioned dispute in audio added to my amusement considerably!
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was one he knew something about :-)Jonathan Cecil was in fine form with this narration and listening to the abovementioned dispute in audio added to my amusement considerably!
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1937