Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best
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Narrated by:
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Martin Jarvis
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By:
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P. G. Wodehouse
About this listen
The Collected Blandings Short Stories.
Blandings Castle is the home of Lord Emsworth, who likes nothing better than to potter at home in his enormous castle garden. But his rural idyll is once again set to be disturbed in these nine hilarious fables. No peace is possible when his sister Constance is let loose, and she is constantly trying to reorganise the household and its inhabitants! Without great success....
The nieces are unhappy, McAllister leaves at a difficult time, and then The Empress of Blandings - Emsworth's prize pig - goes off her pig-food! Put all this against the continuing complicated love affairs of Freddie Threepwood, not to mention Lord Emsworth's own love interests, and the stage is once more set for classic Wodehouse hilarity!
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- BarbaraM
- 09-08-21
Wonderful Wodehouse
Excellent narrator. A funny and delightfully period example of silly but enjoyable humour. This is a collection of short stories with Lord Emsworth at Centre stage.
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- Ian
- 29-07-15
Blandings and PG Wodehouse at their best...
Brilliant and gentle. A witty and delightful potter through the Emsworth chronicles. Superbly read by Martin Jarvis..
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- edward botheras
- 26-09-23
Loved it.
A gentle, easy listen. Old fashioned, but timeless, With quaint humour that had me smiling and chortling several times.
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- Miss E Stacey
- 19-11-21
Needs better editing
Stories and narration were superb. No pause between Titles and previous song very distressing
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-01-21
A Laugh a Minute
Never laughed so much listening to a book. Martin Jarvis tells it brilliantly. A must for your library.
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- Eleanor
- 30-08-21
Fantastic set of short stories
Martin Jarvis is always a great narrator. This is a wonderfully amusing set of short stories.
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- Kingston1919
- 20-02-13
Wonderfuld stories and narration BUT
Star rating refers to stories and narration, recording leaves much to be desired.
Wodehouse never fails to amuse and Martin Jarvis never fails to get the characters` voices right BUT, Oh dear! Whoever arranged them for Audible download needs their head examined! No sooner has a story reached the end than the title of the next story is announced. No gap - almost no time for a breath! There should be a gap of at least two seconds - as it is there is no time to pause one`s Kindle in order to cease listening until the `next time`.Really, really aggravating.
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- Martin Walden
- 24-12-20
Excellent
These short stories are a real find. Each is perfectly written and enormous fun and of course brilliantly read by Martin Jarvis who is I think by far the best of the narrators available through Audible. Would very much recommend as a perfect gift.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-01-24
Hilarious
Lord Emsworth at his finest. I almost died laughing .
Pure heaven. Characterisations fabulous, I don’t know how Martin Jarvis managed to keep a straight face
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-24
Excellent but for Audible running each story into the next.
Gloriously amusing turns of phrase as ever by Woodhouse. Brilliant narration by Jarvis. A real pleasure, barring Audible trying to run all the stories into each other. Why ?
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