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Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; New edition edition (October 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140284613
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140284614
  • Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.7 x 7.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Company You Keep
By Gord Wilson VINE VOICE on February 4, 2005
Format: Paperback
In P.G. Wodehouse (Thames and Hudson Literary Lives Series), James Connolly offers this advice: "Relax and reread Wodehouse; he's the boy to restore a sense of proportion." Absolutely good advice. I find rereading Wodehouse is more enjoyable than most first reads of other authors, and he's quite easy to reread, even if you don't intend to, because his stories appear in various collections and his novels were often published under various titles.

Something Fresh, officially the first book in the Blandings Castle saga, was published as "Something New" as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and then as a book with the same title in an American edition. "Something Fresh" is a slightly altered British edition of that book. Ashe Marson, the unknown author of the hard-boiled Gridley Quayle, Investigator series of paperback pulps, answers an ad: "WANTED--Young Man of Good Appearance, who is poor and reckless, to undertake delicate and dangerous enterprise. Good pay for the right man." Poor and reckless is a formula in Wodehouse for a good-hearted, down on his luck guy, about to be smiled upon by a beneficent Providence. It's a carry-over from his work in musical comedy and as a struggling writer, but he is one of the few authors who make his leading characters writers, and one of the very few who throws them any of the good parts.

This book is a double bonus, with not only Ashe, but a female writer, Joan Valentine, who knows even more of the hard-bitten life of the streets, and is therefore even poorer and more reckless, as a stellar second in the personnel.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsGreat book -- but avoid the Kindle version; it's severely abridged
By hulot ca on July 14, 2011
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
I'm a big fan of Wodehouse. In fact, this is the only Blandings novel or story I've yet to read. So I was really looking forward to digging into it. However, the small print in my Penguin edition was proving a bit too tiring for my middle-aged eyes to read in the late evening, so I thought I'd download the Kindle version (only a dollar!), increase the type size a bit, and happy reading! A few nights later, a few chapters into the book, I was settling down in bed to read a bit more and I realized that I'd left my Kindle in another room, so I decided to squint my way through my Penguin copy for the evening. I started leafing through the early chapters, looking for my place, and I noticed some material that i didn't remember having read on the Kindle. So, I got up, went to my office, retrieved the Kindle, and started comparing the two versions. Lo and behold -- the Kindle version is missing whole paragraphs! And not just a few.

I ask you, who in their right mind would abridge a Wodehouse novel?
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5.0 out of 5 starsStill Fresh after 100 Years!
By Christopher Kelly on January 5, 2016
Format: Hardcover
In late September of 1915 the British Army launched the Battle of Loos on the Western Front. This marked the first use of poison gas by British forces in the Great War. The Tommies would suffer nearly 60,000 casualties in this appalling battle.

That same month, just over a hundred years ago, a novel called Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse was published Something Fresh (Collector's Wodehouse). Something Fresh was the first in a series of novels that would be set in and near Blandings Castle -- Jeeves and Wooster would follow. Some of those poor Tommies in the trenches could, therefore, have had a copy of the Wodehouse classic. Fiction provides us with a means of escape and the soldiers on the Western front were sorely in need of that.

In spite of the wartime horrors that loomed so large at its writing and publication Something Fresh does not give even a hint of being a "wartime" book. Instead it is a brilliantly written comedy masterpiece. Its hero and heroine are two young hack writers living in London's Leicester square. Ashe Marson is the athletic creator of The Adventures of Gridley Quayle Investigator with installments such as The Adventure of the Wand of Death. Joan Valentine writes short stories about the nobility for a "horrid little paper" called Home Gossip. She is described as being "a tall girl, with wheat gold hair and eyes as brightly blue as a November sky when the sun is shining on a frosty world." Comely Joan is, of course, the love interest.

The really astounding thing about Something Fresh is that, a hundred years later...it still is.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA good introduction to PG Wodehouse and his Blandings Castle series
By Michelle M on October 31, 2015
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This is a fun audio book - the narrator is very good and differentiated the different characters for the listener. The plot was entertaining and the writing style was humorous. A great representation of PG Wodehouse's writing. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNot just Jeeves but many other wonderful characters
By Bill on May 7, 2015
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Wodehouse is great. Amazon thinks this is a different book from Wodehouse's Something New but it is the same book, which is free under that title. Something Fresh is also available as an Audible.com book and the narration is terrific. I like his other stuff better than Jeeves.
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5.0 out of 5 starsQuite irreplaceable.

Good old Wodehouse. Tongue firmly in cheek. Very well written and always worth reading. I wish he had writtena lot more.

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