Fish Preferred
1929
Blandings Castle has never been more delightfully chaotic. Hugo Carmody loves Millicent, but Millicent is furious because Hugo has been having dinner with the delectable Sue Brown. Meanwhile, Sue is being pestered by the insufferable Pilbeam with flowers, while her true love is Ronnie Fish, who would very much like to punch Pilbeam in the face. When the Earl of Emsworth's prize pig disappears and Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe finds himself accused of the theft, things escalate magnificently. Throw in the Earl's private secretary, his formidable sister Lady Constance, and the fact that various people keep falling out of windows, and you have all the ingredients of a perfect Wodehouse pudding. The comedy of errors spins ever faster, but never once does Wodehouse break his impeccable comic timing. This is fizzy, effervescent entertainment of the highest order: a world where everyone is slightly mad, everyone's romantic intentions are wildly misread, and somehow everything resolves into bliss. If you want to be happy for the duration of a train journey, a lazy afternoon, or a single blessed evening, this is exactly the book for you.
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“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“I don't get your drift.""I will continue snowing.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“No love could stand up against the sight of me in a sailor suit at the age of ten. I””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“Experience, dearly bought in the days of his residence at the University, had taught him that when the Law gripped you with its talons the only thing to do was to give a false name, say nothing and hope for the best.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig,' said the Hon. Galahad, who was well versed in the manners and rules of good society.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
“In fact, it seemed to him that he could almost hear the wedding bells ringing already. Then, coming out of his dreams, he realized that it was the telephone.””
— P. G. Wodehouse
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