Blandings and Beyond

In this literary guide, we chart the permanently sun-dappled world of PG Wodehouse, the writer known to devotees as the Master. The large-format map charts locations both fictional and real: Blandings Castle, Brinkley Court, the Drones Club, Wodehouse's childhood home in Guilford ("as normal as rice pudding"), prep school at Dulwich College, and the bank where he endured a brief, unhappy period working as "the most inefficient clerk whose trouser seat ever polished a stool." In his works, PG Wodehouse avoided using real-life locations, yet close reading reveals clues. Making use of all available scholarship, and a lifetime absorbed by the world Wodehouse created, Blandings And Beyond is your passport to what Evelyn Waugh called "Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world." In this literary guide, we chart the permanently sun-dappled world of PG Wodehouse, the writer known to devotees as the Master. The large-format map charts locations both fictional and real: Blandings Castle, Brinkley Court, the Drones Club, Wodehouse's childhood home in Guilford ("as normal as rice pudding"), prep school at Dulwich College, and the bank where he endured a brief, unhappy period working as "the most inefficient clerk whose trouser seat ever polished a stool." In his works, PG Wodehouse avoided using real-life locations, yet close reading reveals clues. Making use of all available scholarship, and a lifetime absorbed by the world Wodehouse created, Blandings And Beyond is your passport to what Evelyn Waugh called "Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world."