Leave it to Psmith
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry A Blandings novelLady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves – among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's younger son, who wants the reward money to set up a bookmaking business. Psmith, the elegant socialist, is also after it for his newly married chum Mike. And on patrol with the impossible task of bringing management to Blandings is the Efficient Baxter, whose strivings for order lead to a memorable encounter with the castle flowerpots.Will peace ever return to Blandings Castle...?
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- In a lighter vein, let me suggest reading the Psmith series by Wodehouse. If not the entire series then Leave It To Psmith, at least.
- I've only read the first Psmith book set in Blandings - Leave it to Psmith. It's absolutely hilarious.
If you like Ukridge, then you could also read 'Love Amount the Chickens', which features the Ukridge character.
- The other Psmith books are a growing up progression to that one. Psmith was his adopted daughter's fav so he stopped while young and beautiful like she did. Mike and Psmith is a proper YA school story which was where Wodehouse started. Psmith in the city something of a sequel. Psmith Journalists the nearest Wodehouse ever got to literature with a social point to make, definitely worth the read. Leave it to Psmith is, imho his masterpiece and the best written novel I've read. Sadly the last we hear of Psmith.
All should be out of copyright by now.
- Last year, one of Wodehouse's absolute corkers[1] entered into the public domain of the United States[2].
[1] Leave it to Psmith http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60067
[2] At Long Last… The Public Domain Expands! https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2019/01/08/at-long-last-the-public...
- I just listened to "The Inimitable Jeeves" and "Leave It To PSmith" on the Classic Tales podcast.
Both were very amusing.
- Three of my favorites:
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58585
Men Like Gods, by H. G. Wells http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200221h.html
Leave It To Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126397/page/n1
