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.

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Label Occurrences
Summer Lightning canonical 17
“Summer Lightning” 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf comic novel ⓘ
novel ⓘ
alternativeTitleUsedIn United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
author P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ
containsElement satire of upper-class society ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
featuresCharacter Beach ⓘ
The Empress of Blandings ⓘ
surface form: 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 series ⓘ
surface form: Blandings Castle stories
setting Blandings Castle ⓘ
targetAudience adult readers ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century ⓘ

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P. G. Wodehouse → notableWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Blandings Castle series → hasPart → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Lord Emsworth → appearsInWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Leave It to Psmith → sequel → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Pelham → notableWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
subject surface form: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
The Empress of Blandings → appearsInWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
this entity surface form: “Summer Lightning”
The Empress of Blandings → firstAppearance → Summer Lightning ⓘ
this entity surface form: “Summer Lightning”
Freddie Threepwood → appearsIn → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Heavy Weather → follows → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Blandings Castle canon → includesWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Galahad Threepwood → appearsIn → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Galahad Threepwood → firstAppearance → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Something New → hasWorkInSeries → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe → appearsIn → Summer Lightning ⓘ
this entity surface form: “Summer Lightning”
Clarence Threepwood → appearsInWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Lady Constance Keeble → appearsInWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Blandings Castle → appearsIn → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Hugo Carmody → appearsIn → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Rupert Baxter → appearsIn → Summer Lightning ⓘ
Sue Brown → appearsInWork → Summer Lightning ⓘ