Something Fresh

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, by D. Appleton and Company on September 3, 1915, under the title Something New, and in the United Kingdom by Methuen & Co. on September 16, 1915. The novel introduces Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, whose home and family reappear in many of W... more

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, by D. Appleton and Company on September 3, 1915, under the title Something New, and in the United Kingdom by Methuen & Co. on 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. Young neighbours and fellow-writers Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, newly met and both in need of a change of direction, find themselves drawn down to Blandings, for various reasons attempting to retrieve a scarab belonging to an American millionaire, absent-mindedly purloined by Lord Emsworth. Once within the Castle's idyllic walls, despite impersonating servants, romance cannot help but... less