Blandings Castle

KeithS 138: You can't go wrong with any of the Jeeves or Blandings Castle books.

Making Light: Universal Lending Library Amnesty Thread 2010

Begin with "Leave It to Psmith" (1923), if only because it has the most delectable opening sentence in all of literature: "At the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded peer, stood gazing out over his domain."

Beach Reading Without Guilt 2007

Eleven nights had George dined at Blandings Castle, and on each of the eleven nights he had been distressed to see the manner in which Aline, declining the baked meats, had restricted herself to the miserable vegetable messes which were all that doctor's orders permitted to her suffering father.

Something New 1928

Against the pale gray sky Blandings Castle stood out like a mountain.

Something New 1928

The hall at Blandings Castle was more an extra drawing-room than

Something New 1928

His powers in this respect were well-known at Blandings Castle.

Something New 1928

Mr. Beach was fond and proud of the Blandings Castle museum.

Something New 1928

Blandings Castle was one of the more important of England's show places, and Beach accordingly had acquired a dignified inertia that almost qualified him for inclusion in the vegetable kingdom.

Something New 1928

He stopped his son's allowance, haled him home to Blandings Castle, and kept him there so relentlessly that until the previous night, when they had come up together by an afternoon train, Freddie had not seen London for nearly a year.

Something New 1928

Far away his mind had been -- seventy miles away -- in the pleasant hothouses and shady garden walks of Blandings Castle.

Something New 1928