Something Fresh by Pg Wodehouse
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NINA STIBBE A hundred years ago P.G. Wodehouse, now widely regarded as the best comic novelist of the twentieth century, wrote SOMETHING FRESH, the first of his novels set in Blandings Castle. Here resides the dotty Lord Emsworth, who is `as completely happy as only a fluffy-headed old man with excellent health and a large income can be’; his son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, who `had been expelled from Eton for breaking out at night and roaming the streets of Windsor in a false moustache’ and their butler, Beach, who had `acquired a dignified inertia which almost qualified him for inclusion in the vegetable garden’. Featuring a valuable scarab unwittingly acquired from a dyspeptic American billionaire, plus imposters, engagements, broken engagements, elopements, mistaken identities, family spats and shots fired in the dead of night, SOMETHING FRESH is Wodehouse at his glorious best. `The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are exiled.’ Evelyn Waugh
"Something Fresh has all the trademarks of a Wodehouse classic" * The Times *
"A delightful centenary edition" -- Claire Allfree * Metro, Best Books of 2015 *
"A delightful centenary edition" -- Claire Allfree * Metro, Best Books of 2015 *
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as `Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language. Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club. In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for `having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091959517 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091959519 |
| Title | Something Fresh |
| Author | P G Wodehouse |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2015-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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