Something Fresh

p.g. wodehouse

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice.

Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth’s secretary, the efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot – despite the distractions caused by the Honorable Freddie Threepwood’s hapless affair of the heart.

Genres fictionhumorclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literaturemysteryromancenovels20th century

284 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1,1915

Series

Blandings Castle

Places

blandings castle,

This edition

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Published: April 7, 2005 by The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781585676583
ASIN: 1585676586
Language: English

Characters More characters

Clarence Threepwood

Clarence Threepwood, ninth Earl of Emsworth, amiable and boneheaded peer, appears first in Something Fresh; a long, lean, bald-headed, stringy man of about sixty with a reedy tenor voice, a widower for 25 years. Called Fathead at Eton in the 60s. Cl...
Sebastian Beach

Sebastian Beach, formerly an under-footman, then a footman, is the Butler at Blandings Castle in Something Fresh, Leave It to Psmith, Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best, Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey!, Company for Gertrude, Summer Lightning, Go-Getter, Heavy Weather, The...
Rupert Baxter

Secretary to Lord Emsworth, also to J. Horace Jeavons and later to the Duke of Dunstable...
Ashe Marson

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Joan Valentine

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J. Preston Peters

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About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).