Summer Lightning

E27472

comic novel novel

Summer Lightning is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse set at Blandings Castle, featuring romantic entanglements, impostors, and farcical misunderstandings among the English aristocracy.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	comic novel → novel →
alternativeTitleUsedIn	United States →
author	P. G. Wodehouse →
containsElement	satire of upper-class society →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
featuresCharacter	Beach → Empress of Blandings → Galahad Threepwood → Hugo Carmody → Lady Constance Keeble → Lord Emsworth → Ronnie Fish → Rupert Baxter → Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe → Sue Brown →
firstEditionFormat	hardcover →
firstPublisher	Herbert Jenkins →
followedBy	Heavy Weather →
follows	Leave It to Psmith →
genre	comic fiction → humorous novel →
hasAlternativeTitle	Fish Preferred →
hasCriticalReception	generally positive →
hasMainLocationType	country house →
hasMotif	blackmail → family honor → mistaken identity → pig-napping → theft of a manuscript →
hasSubgenre	light comedy →
hasTheme	English aristocracy → farce → impostors → romantic entanglements →
isAdaptedAs	radio drama →
language	English →
literaryMovement	comic tradition of English literature →
literaryPeriod	20th-century literature →
narrativeStyle	third-person narration →
partOf	Blandings Castle canon →
publicationYear	1929 →
publisherInUnitedStates	Little, Brown and Company →
series	Blandings Castle stories →
setting	Blandings Castle →
targetAudience	adult readers →
timePeriodOfSetting	early 20th century →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
P. G. Wodehouse → Pelham Grenville Wodehouse →	notableWork
Lord Emsworth →	appearsInWork
Blandings Castle series →	hasPart
Leave It to Psmith →	sequel