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Something Fresh

Something Fresh

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Something Fresh is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The story first appeared as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post between June 26 and August 14, 1915. It was first published as a book in the United States, September 3, 1915, under the title Something New, and in the United Kingdom September 16, 1915.

The novel introduces Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, whose home and family reappear in many of Wodehouse's later short stories and novels; Wodehouse later dubbed this series of stories "the Blandings Castle Saga" in the 1969 preface to this book.

A Blandings novel This 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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