P. G. Wodehouse Volume 2

The Blandings Collection

De: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrado por: Stephen Fry

Audible Studios presents the second volume of the best-selling PG Wodehouse collection. In this volume, Stephen Fry lends his voice to the Blandings stories. This collection contains:

Summer Lightning

Heavy Weather

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

Lord Emsworth and Others

Uncle Fred in the Spring Time

Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all-round national treasure. Whilst at university, Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator and friend, Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. Fry’s acting roles include Blackadder, Kingdom, Bones, V for Vendetta, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and The Hobbit trilogy. He has written and presented several documentary series and as a proudly out gay man, the award-winning Out There, documenting the lives of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people around the world is part of his 30-year advocacy of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Fry has written four novels: The Liar, The Hippopotamus (made in to a feature film in 2018), Making History and The Stars’ Tennis Balls. Translated into many languages, they have never been out of print. The most recently published works are Mythos, Heroes and Troy, a trilogy retelling the Greeks myths from the Creation to the aftermath of the Trojan War.

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Love Stephen Fry and P.G. Wodehouse

Stephen Fry does an excellent job with a huge range of characters, from Lady ‘Aunt Connie’ Constable, Pongo, Mr Pott, Lord Emsworth, and many more. If you enjoy P.G. Wodehouse, you’ll love this collection. My favorite was the last story, Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Ridiculous, relaxing, and highly enjoyable. Enjoy!

Humourous and entertaining!

Stephen Fry is a masterclass. I can think of no other narrator who brings a story more to life then he. From start to finish, Mr. Fry brings a richness and depth to the stories that I believe even P.G. Wodehouse would’ve been happy with! The stories are entertaining and rich in humor and wry wit. You can’t go wrong with this book - well worth your token or purchase!

Anything is better with Stephen Fry

I didn’t think anything could improve P. G. Wodehouse, but Stephen Fry does. These hilarious stories are even better narrated by his wonderful voice.

Stephen Fry is great

Great storytelling of Blandings Castle stories. I especially like Uncle Fred in the Springtime. I hope he will be narrating more PG Wodehouse books.

Fulfills a need

Stephen Fry is doing so much voice work these days that we may get tired of him, but that said he does a very serviceable job on this (incomplete) Blandings Castle collection which also includes some unrelated short stories. He doesn't quite reach the level of my favorite Wodehouse narrators, Frederick Davidson and Jonathan Cecil, but it's still pretty good. Most importantly, this provides full competent performances of two core chapters of the Blandings saga that were MIA on Audible U.S. The only other version of "Summer Lightning" on Audible by someone named John Wells is perhaps the worst Wodehouse narration I have come across - he so overexaggerates the characters as to make them ludicrous and incomprehensible. Fry's narration is subtle and on-point by comparison. And the other version of "Heavy Weather" by Martin Jarvis is - horror of horrors - abridged!

A well-performed audiobook of P.G. Wodehouse is one of life's true pleasures. This is a good addition, but if you don't know the Blandings Castle stories, you might want to start at the beginning with "Something Fresh" and "Leave it to Psmith"

(A point of interest: Fry's versions of "Summer Lightning" and "Heavy Weather" seem to be an hour or two longer than audiobook versions I have listened to in the past, and to include passages I don't remember from those other versions. I haven't compared to the published text, but it makes me think that Fry's readings of these core Wodehouse novels may be more complete versions than have been available on audiobook in the past, even if those earlier ones were also listed as unabridged.)

Wodehouse + Frye = Priceless!

The language, the voice and the laughs are beyond the best that literature has to offer.

Fun!

Very long and I tired a little of some of the characters’ stories. I took it in small doses and enjoyed it that way.

Happy Memories

I am about 10 yrs older than Stephen Fry and my first aquaintance with Wodehouse was a battered paperback of Summer Lightning in my Grandfather's Library. I chose a selection from this to read to my form 2 class for a competition. I won. The other fellow was the better reader but I chose the best material. In this instance Audible has chosen both the best reader and the best material. I had never come across the Hollywood, or the golfing extracts before,but enjoyed them immensely. They also brought happy memories of my Grandfather. Who played golf for fun and lawn bowls as a science. Born in 1882 and widowed in the late 1930s certain aspects of his life when I knew him rather resembled Uncle Fred off the leash. Happy memories and thank you Stephen Fry.

it's Wodehouse

rummy potty Persian monarchs . chappies and uncles and touching for pounds in droves. rummy indeed!

Pure Joy

Stephen Fry is exquisite, a consummate voice actor. The stories are hilarious, as Wodehouse is. A pure delight.