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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- 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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- Felixthecat
- 21-06-24
Witty Wodehouse stories
A delightful series of PG Wodehouse stories about the endearing, absent-minded Lord Emsworth, read wonderfully by Martin Jarvis who evokes all the characters in masterly style. An audio treat!
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- timmywilly
- 07-04-25
Humour
Martin Jarvis was wonderful to listen to Brought the whole of the stories to life. Loved it
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- Renard Zorro
- 30-07-13
Magical collection of the best of Lord Emsworth!
Where does Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The combination of P.G. Wodehouse's sublime prose and the brilliant narration and characterisation by Martin Jarvis is simply too good to miss. Pure joy.
What other book might you compare Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best to, and why?
Martin Jarivs has narrated a number of P.G. Wodehouse books. Get them all.
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There are scenes of great humour and farce, fabulous plot twists, wonderful characters and, finally, a few scenes that are really touching.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
These stories put you into a World you don't want to leave.
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- Mrs. E. D'agostino
- 01-05-19
Perfect escapism
Country House capers which never fail to delight, settle back and escape to a bygone era, leaving your worries behind. Brilliantly narrated by Martin Jarvis.
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- fieldfare
- 14-06-24
Vintage Wodehouse
Splendid laugh out loud fun from the genius that is PG Wodehouse.
Just one frustration about the recording- there’s no pause between stories- each starts immediately after the last with no pause whatsoever. This needs fixing. But it can’t spoil the enjoyment.
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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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