Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious chickens, irascible professors, angry creditors, and divided lovers.
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"Classic Wodehouse -- clever, delightful. This breezy story will be especially appreciated by very young, especially proficient readers, as the language is cleverly crafted and there are no themes which would be inappropriate for young children. " — Marynna (4 out of 5 stars)
"Classic Wodehouse -- clever, delightful. This breezy story will be especially appreciated by very young, especially proficient readers, as the language is cleverly crafted and there are no themes which would be inappropriate for young children. "
“Please listen to this book at home, while walking or lazing about on the patio or veranda. Do not listen while operating motorized equipment because you’ll laugh too hard and could cause an accident…Cecil is bursting with characters large and small, male and female, pompous and clueless, and he reads with an all-encompassing energy that is both infectious and satisfying.”
" Delightful story about love, chickens, golf, croquet, tennis, sea-bathing, and fraud. "
" Cute, but I don't know if it's made me a P.G. Wodehouse convert. "
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" A light romance with many funny moments as the hero, a writer, is drawn into running a chicken farm and meets the girl of his dreams. Had me cackling with laughter at several points. "
" Classic Wodehouse. Lots of phrases to enjoy, like one character referring to others as "old horse" and lots of tongue in cheek humor.I listened to it on audio book and I really liked the narrator. He sounded just like he should. "
" My daughter wants me to tell everyone that in this book chickens fell in love. They didn't really. People fell in love, while among chickens. "
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in 1975.
Jonathan Cecil (1939–2011) was a vastly experienced actor, appearing at Shakespeare’s Globe as well as in such West End productions as The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, and The Bed before Yesterday. He toured in The Incomparable Max, Twelfth Night, and An Ideal Husband, while among his considerable television and film appearances were The Rector’s Wife, Just William, Murder Most Horrid, and As You Like It.
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