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Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse
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Pigs Have Wings (original 1952; edition 2008)

by P. G. Wodehouse (Author)

Series: Blandings Castle (7)

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Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.… (more)
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Title:Pigs Have Wings
Authors:P. G. Wodehouse (Author)
Info:Arrow (2008), 272 pages
Collections:Read but unowned
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Tags:fiction, comedy

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Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse (1952)

  1. 10
    Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse (Shivaranjan)
    Shivaranjan: I think it is a super book.You might faint laughing while reading this books .One of the best of P G Wodehouse...... excerpt:- "Bertie!"said old Kipper. "What is your little problem?" "My little trouble!" "Didn't you like the Blue Room?" "The Blue Room!" "Kipper,"said I,irritated"decide whether you are my old friend Reginald Herring or an echo in the Swiss mountains."… (more)
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4½ stars for the book but I didn't really care for Jeremy Sinden's narration. In particular, his voices for Lord Emsworth and his sister Connie grated on me. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
One of the very first Wodehouses I've ever read, and as far as I'm concerned one of the very best. ( )
  Stravaiger64 | Nov 5, 2021 |
Excellent. If forced to select a single Wodehouse pig-pilfering Blandings Castle novel, it would be "Summer Lightning." Fortunately, the world is not so cruel, and requires no such choice.

He had received his early education at Harrow, and Old Harrovians, he reminded himself, when they have plighted their troth to Girl A, do not go about folding Girl B in their arms. Old Etonians, yes. Old Rugbeians, possibly. But not Old Harrovians. ( )
  ben_a | Aug 2, 2021 |
Rather silly but very entertaining. Wodehouse uses the same formula as other books but this one is funnier, probably because the pigs kept appearing in the wrong places. ( )
  siok | Dec 29, 2019 |
'Seeing the object of Penny’s affections at close range, he found himself favourably impressed. For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked.' ( )
  Jon_Hansen | Oct 12, 2019 |
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Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.

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