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Uncle Fred in the Springtime
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First published in US: August 18 1939 by Doubleday Doran, Garden City, New York
First published in UK: August 25 1939 by Herbert Jenkins, London

Russian translations

  • Dyadya Fred v vesennee vremya by N. Trauberg: 1997, 1999, 2000
  • Dyadya Fred vesennej poproj by N. Trauberg: 2004, 2012 2023
  • Dyadyushka Fred v vesennee vremya by M. Gilinskij: 1999

Pongo Twistleton is in a state of financial embarrassment and it's not for the first time. Uncle Fred, meanwhile, has been asked by Lord Emsworth of Blandings to foil a plot to relieve him of the Empress, his much-adored prize pig.

Along with Polly Pott (daughter of dear old Mustard), they form a deputation to Blandings Castle, a party of innocent imposters bent on doing 'a bit of good to two loving hearts'. For Uncle Fred himself admits, 'there are no limits, literally none, to what I can accomplish in the springtime'.

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Characters

Pongo Twistleton — Uncle Fred's nephew reading for the bar
Horace Pendlebury-Davenport — Pongo's tall and rich friend engaged to Valerie
Webster — Horace's valet
Alaric, The Duke of Dunstable — Horace's wealthy and eccentric uncle. Has a nasty temper and thinks everyone is crazy.
(Uncle Fred) Frederick Altamount Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham — Pongo's uncle who married an American named Jane. Tall, slim and distinguished who is a friend of Gaily's.
Valerie Twistleton — Pongo's tall sister engaged to Horace
(Mustard) Claude Pott — Short and fat private detective of 50 who had been a silver ring bookie. Uncle Fred set him up in business. Loves to play Persian Monarchs.
Rupert Baxter — Secretary to the Duke of Dunstable
(Ricky) Alaric Gilpin — Horace's redheaded muscular cousin who is a poet engaged to Polly. He wants to buy into an onion soup bar. His late father William was a friend of Uncle Fred's.
Polly Pott — Mustard's pretty 21 year old daughter who taught Horace to dance. Small girl engaged to Ricky.
Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth — Wants to protect the Empress
George, Lord Bosham — Lord Emsworth's elder son who lives in Hampshire
Empress of Blandings — Twice winner of the silver medal of the Shropshire Agricultural Show
Sir Roderick Glossop — Nerve specialist whom Lord Emsworth knew as a boy named Pimples
Jane, Countess of Ickenham — Uncle Fred's dominating wife
George Budd — Bookie to whom Pongo owes two hundred pounds
Coggs — Lord Ickenham's butler
Bates — The hall porter at the Drones Club
Ed. Robinson — Cab driver for Market Blandings
G. Ovens — Proprietor of the Emsworth Arms
Charles and Henry — Footmen at Blandings
Cecily — Lord Bosham's wife
Beach (*)
Erb (*)
Lady Constance Keeble (*)
Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright (*)
Oofy Prosser (*)
Freddie Threepwood (*)

Synopsis
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