An edition of Something Fresh (1915)

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An edition of Something Fresh (1915)

Something New

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Something New is the first novel of what became known as the “Blandings Castle Saga” by P. G. Wodehouse and was published in the United States in 1915. Two Americans, Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, endeavor to retrieve a scarab pilfered from an American millionaire by the absent-minded Lord Emsworth. Marson and Valentine soon find themselves impersonating servants while evading the Efficient Baxter.

The story was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post as Something Fresh in 1915. It introduced who would become the recurring characters of Blandings Castle: Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Rupert Baxter, and Sebastian Beach.

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Cover of: Something New
Something New
2017, Standard Ebooks
in English
Cover of: Something Fresh
Something Fresh
2008, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Something fresh
Something fresh
2005, Overlook Press
in English
Cover of: Something fresh
Something fresh
1986, Hutchinson
in English
Cover of: Something Fresh
Something Fresh
February 1969, Hutchinson
Hardcover - New Impression edition
Cover of: Something new
Something new
1915, D. Appleton and Company
in English

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OL37044576M
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p-g-wodehouse/something-new

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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry A Blandings novelThis is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable scarab which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this...

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