Early work follows Ashe Marson into the drafty halls of Blandings Castle, where he will try to make "something new" of his life by purloining a rare Egyptian scarab — all for the best motives, of course. The resultant hilarious romp through a stately English country home also introduces other characters who recur throughout the Blandings Castle Saga.
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Anglo-American wit, short-story writer, dramatist and lyricist, educated at Dulwich College and chiefly noted as the creator of the efficient butler, Jeeves. He wrote more than 90 books and more than 20 film scripts and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies. His major works include Psmith in the City (1910), Very Good Jeeves (1930), The Butler Did It (1957), Bachelors Anonymous (1974), O, Kay (1926) and Rosalie (1928).
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This is Wodehouse's first masterpiece, and (according to his best biographer, McCrum) it transformed his career and made him a success. It was the first book Wodehouse sold to the Saturday Evening Post, and the first he wrote with a new agent and a newly-wed wife; it's also vastly better crafted than anything he'd written previously. It shows the skill and heart, mixed with low humor, that characterize his mature pieces; it also earned him a huge sum of money. It's the first appearance of Blandings Castle, (with an insignificant exception) Lord Emsworth, the Efficient Baxter, the awe-inspiring butler Beach, and the rest of Blandings Castle's large and stratified domestic staff.
The book appeared in two versions, and the objective evidence doesn't make it clear which was written first. The US version, entitled _Something New_, and now available from Project Gutenberg, was published first. Terry Mordue's excellent annotations, available on the web, make it clear that the final version of the American text is later than the English, since the American version corrects a mistake that slips through in _Something Fresh_ (chapter 8, p. 164). Æsthetically, however, it seems clear the the American version was a hasty revision of the English. The Americanization of three characters in _Something New_ was clearly an afterthought; the Efficient Baxter mistakes Ashe Marson (chapter 5, p. 102) for a guest, presumably a relation of Lord Emsworth's. Even though the Americanized Marson had attended Oxford, this does not suffice (trust me) to fool an Englishman. The Americanization of George Emerson is also an æsthetic failure; Wodehouse repeatedly refers to him as a superman, which works well for an imperial police commander (in a post held by Wodehouse's uncle and, much later, by his brother (chapter 3, p. 47)); it makes no sense for a generic American lawyer. The original title, though, must have been "Something New," since that phrase occurs four times in the book, and "something fresh" not at all (Chapter 1, p. 20, attributed to Fr Rob Bovendaard). Recent American editions, however, retain the title _Something New_ but adopt the English text.
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Superb - but published under two names,
This review is from: Something New (Penny Books) (Kindle Edition)
This is a superb story by P. G. Wodehouse and a must read for Wodehouse fans.
However, the same story is also published under the name "Something Fresh", so don't make the mistake of buying both.
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Lord Emsworth, George Emerson, Gridley Quayle, Aline Peters, Earl of Emsworth, Joan Valentine, Blandings Castle, Market Blandings, Miss Willoughby, Miss Peters, Ashe Marson, Arundell Street, Miss Valentine, Lord Stockheath, Number Seven, Colonel Horace Mant, Miss Simpson, Morning Post, Preston Peters, Freddie Threepwood, Lady Ann Warblington, Larsen Exercises, Rupert Baxter, Colonel Mant, New York New!
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Lord Emsworth, George Emerson, Gridley Quayle, Aline Peters, Earl of Emsworth, Joan Valentine, Blandings Castle, Market Blandings, Miss Willoughby, Miss Peters, Ashe Marson, Arundell Street, Miss Valentine, Lord Stockheath, Number Seven, Colonel Horace Mant, Miss Simpson, Morning Post, Preston Peters, Freddie Threepwood, Lady Ann Warblington, Larsen Exercises, Rupert Baxter, Colonel Mant, New York New!
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