Leave it to Psmith

Leave it to Psmith

Freddie Threepwood and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants a thousand pounds to start a bookmakers business and to marry Eve, while his uncle wants to raise three thousand pounds, unbeknown to his wife, to help a runaway daughter. Freddie persuades his uncle to steal his wifes necklace and sees Psmiths advertisement in a daily paper. Freddie enlists the services of Psmith to steal the necklace. There are plots and counterplots. Psmith is not successful in stealing the necklace but succeeds in stealing the affections of Eve. 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. It was a lovely morning and the air was fragrant with gentle summer scents. Yet in his lordships pale blue eyes there was a look of melancholy. His brow was furrowed, his mouth peevish. And this was all the more strange in that he was normally as happy as only a fluffy-minded man with excellent health and a large income can be. A writer, describing Blandings Castle in a magazine article, had once said: Tiny mosses have grown in the cavities of the stones, until, viewed near at hand, the place seems shaggy with vegetation. It would not have been a bad description of the proprietor. Fifty-odd years of serene and unruffled placidity had given Lord Emsworth[p. 8] a curiously moss-covered look. Very few things had the power to disturb him. Even his younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, could only do it occasionally. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 60067
Author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Release Date: Aug 6, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English