Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse. An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones . Uncle Dynamite. RRP : £8.99 Paperback. The uncle in question is Frederick Altamount Cornwallis, Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, an old boy of such a sunny and youthful . The Small Bachelor. RRP : £8.99 Paperback. A P.G. Wodehouse novel. It's America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance . ISBN 13: 9780393345575. Uncle Fred’s nephew Pongo has just smashed the prized statue of his lady love’s father. His troubles multiply as the replacement bust is revealed to be a smuggling vessel filled with jewels. This bust busting gut buster has Uncle Fred and Wodehouse himself at the very height of their work. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. P. G. Wodehouse was born in England in 1881 and in 1955 became an American citizen. He published more than ninety books and had a successful career writing lyrics and musicals in collaboration with Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, and Cole Porter, among others. Uncle Dynamite. Uncle Fred (Lord Ickenham) wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, a not very successful American sculptor in Chelsea. They had been engaged, but she had broken it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers. Read More. Uncle Fred (Lord Ickenham) wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, a not very successful American sculptor in Chelsea. They had been engaged, but she had broken it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers. Read Less. All Copies ( 73 ) Softcover ( 42 ) Hardcover ( 24 ) Audiobook ( 5 ) Choose Edition ( 10 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0140124497 ISBN-13: 9780140124491 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 1991 Language: English Alibris ID: 16688092665 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Fair Details: ISBN: 0140124497 ISBN-13: 9780140124491 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 1991 Language: English Alibris ID: 16688995862 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Fair. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. 1991, Penguin Group. Brownstown, MI, USA. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0140124497 ISBN-13: 9780140124491 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 1991 Language: English Alibris ID: 16672858963 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0140124497 ISBN-13: 9780140124491 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 1991 Language: English Alibris ID: 16668554031 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. ► Contact This Seller. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Alibris ID: 16657620644 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1991, Penguin Group. Shepherdstown, WV, USA. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Hardcover, Fair Details: Pages: 249 Edition: First Printing of This Edition Publisher: Penguin Group Alibris ID: 13500679905 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59 Trackable Expedited: €7,19. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Fair. Fair in orange cloth-covered boards showing soiling and water stains to boards and top edge, fading to spine, light soiling to foredge of pages, and some wear to extremities. ► Contact This Seller. 1991, Penguin Group. Frederick, MD, USA. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Alibris ID: 16360479267 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Good condition. ► Contact This Seller. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Fine/Like New Details: ISBN: 0393345572 ISBN-13: 9780393345575 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 2013 Language: English Alibris ID: 14893423307 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Like New. 2013. Paperback. Small publishers mark to text block. Otherwise, Fine. ► Contact This Seller. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0393345572 ISBN-13: 9780393345575 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 2013 Language: English Alibris ID: 16552103387 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Shipped to you from Goodwill of the Valleys, Roanoke VA. Thank you for your support! ► Contact This Seller. 1991, Penguin Group. Edition: 1991, Penguin Group Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0099514087 ISBN-13: 9780099514084 Pages: 249 Publisher: Penguin Group Published: 09/2008 Language: English Alibris ID: 16457542805 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,59. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Diary of an Autodidact. I try to read at least one book by P. G. Wodehouse each year - and at that rate, I will likely die before I finish all of them. Dude was prolific and lived a long life. Anyway, here are the ones I have written about on the blog: Uncle Dynamite is a book featuring Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, otherwise known as Uncle Fred. For those unfamiliar with him, Uncle Fred is old of body, but juvenile of heart, always spreading what he calls “sweetness and light,” by means of crazy schemes and insane adventures. His particular victim is usually his nephew, the hapless “Pongo” Twistleton. I have written about two previous Uncle Fred stories: Uncle Fred in the Springtime , which is also a Lord Emsworth story; and Cocktail Time . As in the case of the latter, Uncle Dynamite is filled with literary references. Rather than Alice in Wonderland , this one is filled with Shakespeare references, usually in far less serious situations than in the original, which is part of the humor. Trying to summarize a Wodehouse plot is a bit like drawing a complicated flowchart or corporate organization. There are so many threads and complications that it can get confusing. Let me at least try to bring some order to the chaos of this book. Uncle Fred meets Bill Oakshot on the train. It turns out that they are neighbors. Bill is just returning from abroad, and is friends with Pongo. Bill also is the actual owner of Ashenden Manor, which is occupied by Bill’s uncle Aylmer Bostock, an overbearing and bombastic “dishpot,” as his maid describes him. Bill is in love with Hermione Bostock, who is engaged to Pongo, who is really still in love with Sally, an American girl who kind of resembles the other Sally from The Adventures of Sally , but is a different character. Pongo comes to Ashenden to meet the parents of his fiancee, and things go badly. Aylmer has a dreadfully tacky collection of African curios, and Pongo accidentally breaks one. And then, a bust as well. So Pongo substitutes a bust from Uncle Fred’s house (which is nearby), not knowing that it was made by Sally for purposes of smuggling jewels back to America without paying customs. In the meantime, Aylmer is suing Sally’s publisher brother Otis, so Sally wants Pongo to convince Aylmer to drop the suit. Oh, and the vicar has smallpox, so someone has to fill in and judge the “Bonny Baby” contest. Uncle Fred to the rescue. I’m not sure “rescue” is the best word here, however. Uncle Fred pretends to be expedition leader Major Brabazon- Plank, and has Bill invite him to Ashenden. Uncle Fred will then agree to judge the babies, steal back the bust, and set everything right. But there is more! Pongo is accused by a local policeman (also the fiance of the maid, Elsie Bean) of being an imposter. The real Major Plank shows up and is outraged at being impersonated. Hermione and Pongo quarrel, freeing everyone up to marry the “right” person, and Otis manages to sign Hermione to a book contract. Whew! And there is more, because things get a LOT more complicated before they sort themselves out. Through it all, Uncle Fred maintains his confidence and serenity, even as everyone else flips out. There is always a way through for Uncle Fred, and things always work out just fine in the end. As usual, there are a bunch of hilarious lines. In this book, many of them involve the fusty copper, Harold Potter. In this case, Sally has (for reasons) pushed him into the duck pond. "I was assaulted by the duck pond." "By the duck pond?" Sir Aylmer asked, his eyes widening. "How the devil can you be assaulted by a duck pond?" Constable Potter saw where the misunderstanding had arisen. The English language is full of these pitfalls. "When I say 'by the duck pond,' I didn't mean 'by the duck pond,' I meant 'by the duck pond.' That is to say," proceeded Constable Potter, speaking just in time, "'near' or 'adjacent to', in fact 'on the edge of'." Or his tendency to use silly pseudo-legal phrasing: “Like as it might have been.” As in “Something pushed me, like as it might have been a hand.” And then, there are lines like this one: A sticky moisture had begun to bedew his brow, as if he had entered the hot room of some Turkish bath of the soul. It is all in good fun, and the stakes are, broadly speaking, pretty low. That’s Wodehouse. He doesn’t address the deep issues of his time, but instead pokes fun of human nature in the most ludicrous manner possible. Ultimately, the characters who, like Uncle Fred, are able to laugh at themselves, are the ones who prevail. And the others? Well, they get their just deserts, which is usually to be made ridiculous. This audiobook was read by the late great Jonathan Cecil, who is my favorite Wodehouse reader. And that’s saying something, because Martin Jarvis is also superb. You can’t go wrong with either. What I like best about Cecil is his amazing ability to create distinct voices which are so consistent throughout that you can tell who is speaking simply from the voice. Wodehouse often contains slam-bang dialogue, and it really helps to know who is speaking at any given time. With Cecil, it is so very clear that you forget you are listening to a single person. From the suavity of Uncle Fred, to the timorousness of Pongo, to the bombast of Aylmer, to the basso profundo of Hermione - it’s delightful. Die größten Hörerlebnisse nur bei Audible. Erlebe Audible auf dem Smartphone, Tablet, am Computer oder deinem Amazon Echo. Auch offline. Die größten Hörerlebnisse. Entdecke genau das, was du hören willst: Wähle aus 200.000 Titeln und inspirierenden Audible Original Podcasts. Natürlich werbefrei. Genieße dein Hörerlebnis ohne Unterbrechung. Einfach ausprobieren. Teste Audible 30 Tage kostenlos. Du kannst jederzeit kündigen. Hör die Welt mit anderen Augen. 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