http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Blandings Posts tagged with 'Blandings' at MetaFilter. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:59:12 -0800 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:59:12 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78493/Blandings%2DThe%2DWonderful%2DWorld%2Dof%2DWodehouse <a href="http://www.blandings.org.uk/">Blandings</a> is "a guide and companion to the books, stories, plays and musicals of P. G. Wodehouse, probably the finest craftsman of the English language in the 20th Century." It has lists of his works (and advice on collecting them), a <a href="http://www.blandings.org.uk/what/whatlist.htm">miscellany</a> (old English counties, money and words, JPs, younger sons, sport, public schools and much more), a <a href="http://www.blandings.org.uk/where/wherelist.htm">gazetteer</a> (with notes on real places and maps), and other amenities, but what really put a jaunty spring in my step was the detailed notes for the works. If you go, say, to the <em>Something Fresh</em> <a href="http://www.blandings.org.uk/book/SomethingFresh.htm">page</a> and click on the <a href="http://www.blandings.org.uk/book/Something_Fresh_notes.htm">Notes &amp; Quotes</a> tab, you will find, well, Notes and Quotes. The first thing your bright, expectant orb will encounter: "Arundell Street - no longer exists but it was close to Leicester Square and held both the Hotels Mathis and Previtali (also gone). See <a href="http://www.blandings.org.uk/where/Map_West_End.htm">West End</a> for a sketch map showing its location." It's a blooming marvel! (Via <a href="http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/forums/">Wordorigins.org</a>; Wodehouse <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/23189/wodehouse">previously</a> on MetaFilter.) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78493 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:59:12 -0800 Blandings bloomingmarvel English humor literature Wodehouse languagehat