P. G. Wodehouse: Something New (2004, Wildside Press)
Hardcover, 228 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 2004 by Wildside Press.
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry A Blandings novelThis is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable scarab which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this...
I do love me some PG Wodehouse sometimes. This was his standard silly upper-class England social jaunt. It's the first of his Blandings Castle books; I prefer the Jeeves ones. But it was a good romp.
This novel was mildly humorous in spots. The tale moves slowly, but the prose is well written. I think this was not the best P.G. Wodehouse to begin acquainting oneself with his style.
