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The Reminiscences of the Hon. Galahad Threepwood
For sixty years, admirers of P. G. Wodehouse have lamented the loss of the outrageous reminiscences of Galahad Threepwood - but now a copy has come to light!
As scandalous as he promised, the reminiscences reveal the whole range of Gally's disreputable life and his even more disreputable acquaintanceship.
Baronet buffalo-hunters, eccentric earls and fortune-hunting dukes jostle with bailiffs, bookies' minders and jellied eel sellers.
The book takes the lid off the scandals of late-Victorian England. Gaiety Girls and grandes horizontales, Pink 'Uns and Pelicans, butlers and bishops show how the Naughty Nineties earned the name.
So bizarre are some of the stories recounted, readers may find them hard to believe but almost all are a matter of record.
As scandalous as he promised, the reminiscences reveal the whole range of Gally's disreputable life and his even more disreputable acquaintanceship.
Baronet buffalo-hunters, eccentric earls and fortune-hunting dukes jostle with bailiffs, bookies' minders and jellied eel sellers.
The book takes the lid off the scandals of late-Victorian England. Gaiety Girls and grandes horizontales, Pink 'Uns and Pelicans, butlers and bishops show how the Naughty Nineties earned the name.
So bizarre are some of the stories recounted, readers may find them hard to believe but almost all are a matter of record.
266 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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July 16, 2013
Galahad Threepwood's memoirs were destroyed, eaten by the Empress of Blandings... or were they? Ronnie Fish's wife Sue got a letter from Galahad shortly after their wedding, telling her where to find the second copy of his legendary memoirs.
Galahad Threepwood's scandalous memoirs were a plot device in at least two of the Blandings Castle novels by the master himself, P.G. Wodehouse. This tome tells stories from Galahad's youth, from when he first took up gambling at a tender young age, to his membership in the Pelican Club, to the legendary prawn story with Tubby Parsloe.
There are some funny bits in this book. Galahad's stories about Emsworth as a youth, Barmy Twistleton, and Tubby Parsloe are worth the read. The meetings with historical figures are amusing. Lord Emsworth gets around!
So why am I not shouting from the rooftops about this? Sadly, it's rather boring. N.T.P. Murphy is sure no P.G. Wodehouse. While Galahad Threepwood is still the sultan of smoothness, gone is the beautful writing. It reads more like an actual biography than something meant to entertain.
Galahad Threepwood's scandalous memoirs were a plot device in at least two of the Blandings Castle novels by the master himself, P.G. Wodehouse. This tome tells stories from Galahad's youth, from when he first took up gambling at a tender young age, to his membership in the Pelican Club, to the legendary prawn story with Tubby Parsloe.
There are some funny bits in this book. Galahad's stories about Emsworth as a youth, Barmy Twistleton, and Tubby Parsloe are worth the read. The meetings with historical figures are amusing. Lord Emsworth gets around!
So why am I not shouting from the rooftops about this? Sadly, it's rather boring. N.T.P. Murphy is sure no P.G. Wodehouse. While Galahad Threepwood is still the sultan of smoothness, gone is the beautful writing. It reads more like an actual biography than something meant to entertain.
November 12, 2019
A fictional biography set in real world events and people, from the perspective of Wodehouse's Galahad Threepwood. It's amusing enough, and at the level of what most Edwardians would have thought of as scandalous, making it fairly tame. It is in the same line as Fraser's Flashman papers, but without most of the sex.
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