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“Blandings Castle slept in the sunshine. Dancing little ripples of heat-mist played across its smooth lawns and stone-flagged terraces. The air was full of the lulling drone of insects. It was that gracious hour of a summer afternoon, midway between luncheon and tea, when Nature seems to unbutton its waistcoat and put its feet up.” The third of P.G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle novels, Summer Lightning concerns the exploits of Clarence, the ninth Earl of Emsworth, and his eccentric family, including the complex love affairs of the Earl’s nephew, Ronnie Fish, and his niece, Millicent Threepwood. When Ronnie decides to steal his uncle’s prize pig in an effort to secure the Earl’s approval of his marriage to the dancer Sue Brown, events take an unexpected turn. The ensuing tale is one of confused identities, missing pigs and subterfuge, all delivered in Plum’s remarkable and sublime prose. This is the second printing of the first edition in very good condition.
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