Age Group: Adults

Description:

Something Fresh is the novel that started it all — P.G. Wodehouse's very first Blandings Castle story, published in 1915, and the delightful origin of one of English literature's most beloved comic worlds. It begins with a simple enough blunder: the gloriously absent-minded Lord Emsworth, while visiting an American millionaire's London home, absentmindedly pockets a priceless Egyptian scarab. The millionaire promptly dispatches a young writer, Ashe Marson, to retrieve it — not knowing his own daughter has already hired the resourceful Joan Valentine for the same mission. Both infiltrate Blandings disguised as servants, romance quietly blossoms, and the whole enterprise grows wonderfully, magnificently complicated. Brimming with eccentric aristocrats, scheming relatives, and Wodehouse's signature sunlit wit, this is the perfect introduction to Blandings Castle — and a pure joy from first page to last. For adult readers.