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Followed by. Blandings' Way. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1946 comedy novel written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig, describing the vicissitudes of buying a home in the country. It originally appeared as a short story called "Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle" in the April 1946 issue of Fortune magazine.
- Eric Hodgins, William Steig
- 1946
Feb 11, 2005 · The book I got is a hardcover library copy, 1974 edition (40 year old!). The book is like new! I am very pleased with my purchase. PS Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a beautifully written and funny book, a nice complement to the Cary Grant and Myrna Loy's movie.
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- Simon & Schuster
- $14.69
Eric Hodgins' 1946 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a wry, thoroughly enjoyable 5-star tale of a well-to-do advertising executive of the innocent interwar period and his droll and long-suffering wife on the grueling, years-long quest, part Thorstein Veblen and part "ravishing desire" (1946 Simon & Schuster hardcover, page 14), for a ...
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- Paperback
- Eric Hodgins
Blandings' dream house soon threatens to be the nightmare that undoes him. This internationally bestselling book by Eric Hodgins is illustrated by William Steig and was made into a film starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy -- and a later film starring Tom Hanks called The Money Pit.
- Paperback
- February 11, 2005
Mr. Blandings' dream house soon threatens to be the nightmare that undoes him. This internationally bestselling book by Eric Hodgins is illustrated by William Steig and was made into a film starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy -- and a later film starring Tom Hanks called The Money Pit.
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- Eric Hodgins
Feb 11, 2005 · Rereading Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House for the first time in half a century, I'm struck not merely by how well it reads but how up-to-date it is. Except for the money—try multiplying by 10 to get the Blandings' figures closer to 2007 dollars—just about everything in the book could have been written yesterday, including Hodgins's smooth, ironic prose…
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Mr. Blandings, a successful New York advertising executive, and his wife want to escape the confines of their tiny midtown apartment. They design the perfect home in the idyllic country, but soon they are beset by construction troubles, temperamental workmen, skyrocketing bills, threatening lawyers, and difficult neighbors.
