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Something Fresh (Everyman Wodehouse) | 
 enlarge | Author: P.g. Wodehouse
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 89068
Media: Hardcover
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Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1841591378
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781841591377
ASIN: 1841591378
Publication Date: March 3, 2005
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 The first ever novel of the BLANDINGS SAGA... hats off! October 31, 2007
Alejo (Andorra)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
BLANDINGS SAGA N 1
P.G.Wodehouse did not knew at all (even if he probably suspected the potential) it would be the first chapter of a long saga only second to the JEEVES&WOOSTER one...
As it is the novel provides Blandings castle as only a rural setting for the usual love affair / comedy plot dear to PLUM... but the characters are all there... and there would be sequels were greatness would be achieved...
Lord Emsworth has done for the British aristocracy more than the whole House of Lords together at any time... he is with "Uncle Fred" (Lord Ickenham) the only reason I can think about this obsolete thing of Duke's, Earl's, baronets etc with a light heart and think: "well they are pretty harmless aren't they..." (no one in his right mind would consider Lord Ickenham harmless though!...).
The first of an immortal series.
RECOMMENDED
ADB
PS: The full list of BLANDINGS novels and short stories is:
Something Fresh: A Blandings Story
Leave It to Psmith
Blandings Castle
Summer Lightning
Heavy Weather
Lord Emsworth and Others
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Full Moon
Pigs Have Wings
Service with a Smile
Galahad at Blandings
Plum Pie
A Pelican at Blandings
Sunset at Blandings (Incomplete last book from PLUM)...
Birth of a legend October 18, 2007
Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers'
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
`Something Fresh' is the first book in what was to become the Blanding's Saga, at the time it was written Wodehouse obviously had no idea how popular the Threepwood family were to become and consequently it does not really fit into the Saga as a whole. In `Something Fresh' Blanding's Castle is no more than a setting for Wodehouse's latest farce and Lord Emsworth one of many comic characters to sit in the background to entertain whilst the romance of Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine is played out.
That is no to say it is a weak novel, it stands head and shoulders above the books Wodehouse was writing at that time and points to the heights he was about to climb. In future Blanding's books the central romance was generally submerged in the tapestry as a vehicle for the members of the household to perform the business of a comedy, here the leads have more work to do and go about it in a workman like way.
Ashe Marson has come to Blanding's posing as valet to J. Preston Peters who has actually employed him to retrieve his priceless Egyptian scarab from Lord Emsworth's collection. Joan Valentine is posing as maid to J. Preston Peter's daughter Aline in order to retrieve the scarab herself and separate the millionaire from a fortune for securing it's return. Matters are confused further by Freddie who is engaged to Aline but is living in fear of been sued for breach of promise by Joan to whom he sent compromising letters when she served in the Chorus on the London Music Hall Scene.
Lord Emsworth is entirely unconscious of the tangle that he initiated by absent-mindedly taking the scarab from Peter's home under the impression it was given to him. The loathsome Rupert Baxter, who serves as Lord Emsworth's secretary, suspects everything is not as it seems but his attempts to take hold of the situation merely serves to loose him his on several occasions.
Can all this confusion be sorted out? Will the boy get the girl? Will the man get the scarab? Will Baxter get the sack? Only Wodehouse can bring us to a safe conclusion, but with Wodehouse as with life, it's not the arriving it's the journey that's important.
 Lighthearted, fun and good for a laugh! September 23, 2007
kimbofo (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Looking for something lighthearted and fun to read? Then look no further than P.G. Wodehouse's Something Fresh, the first in his Blandings Castle series.
First published in 1915, it captures an England from a different era, where maids and butlers and valets looked after the bumbling upper classes with aplomb and where single women who worked for a living were frowned upon. But despite this, the book doesn't feel particularly dated, perhaps because there's a lightness of touch that makes it so effortless and enjoyable to read.
The plot revolves around an incredibly rare and valuable scarab -- that's the funny bug-like thing pictured on the front cover -- which Lord Emsworth absent-mindedly pockets during an inspection of a collection put together by a retired American millionaire, Mr Peters. When Mr Peters discovers the scarab is missing he knows who has taken it but is unable to confront "the darned old sneak-thief" because his daughter is about to marry Lord Emsworth's son in a lavish wedding at Blandings Castle.
What follows is a kind of farce in which Mr Peters tries to get his scarab back. He offers a substantial reward to anyone who can retrieve it for him, and it is here that two rivals -- Ashe Marson, a poorly paid writer of detective stories, and Joan Valentine, a magazine correspondent, both from London -- clash swords.
Throw in an overweight private detective, a rich "idiot child", a fussy butler and an efficient private secretary, among others, and the comic world of P.G. Wodehouse comes truly alive.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. And while I didn't find it as hugely funny as I'd been lead to expect, I tittered quite a bit, mainly at the clever word play, and I emitted a lot of loud gaffaws when I came across the book's very funny climax. More please.
A twisted plot of romance, deceit and pigs! September 17, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is always at least one imposter at Blandings in this book! Mr. Peters hires Ashe to steal a scarab, while Aline hires Joan to do the same. The reward for returning it to Mr. Peters is 1000 and neither knows that the other is after the money too. Freddie is engaged to marry Aline, but first he must make sure that there is no chance of a breach of promise case, and to do that he must make contact with the chorus who he sent love letters to in his younger days! A wonderful book. A book with such a twisted plot is yet to be written!
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