Joan Valentine, a young girl living in the same apartment building in a small cul de sac, looks on and laughs at him. The novel begins in London with Ashe Marson, a young writer employed by the Mammoth Publishing Company and the creator of the popular 'Gridley Quayle' detective novels, doing his daily exercises outside his front door. To complicate matters even more, Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's equally dim-witted second son, is engaged to that very same American millionaire's comely daughter-and he is now greatly worried about the possibility of incriminating letters surfacing and leading to an action for breech of faith that would thwart their forthcoming nuptials. Once within the Castle's idyllic walls, however, where they are obliged to play the role of personal servants, romance blossoms. Through typical Wodehousian machinations and outrageous coincidences, they soon find themselves on the way to Blandings Castle, where each of them intends to retrieve, for a suitable reward, the valuable Egyptian scarab belonging to an American millionaire that has recently been absentmindedly abstracted by Lord Emsworth. Both feel they need a change of direction in their careers and their financial situations. Young neighbors in a London boarding house as well as being fellow-writers of a lowly nature, Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine have recently met. In the preface to a new edition published in 1969, Wodehouse dubbed this series of stories 'the Blandings Castle Saga'. Emsworth's stately home and its rich collection of assorted denizens would continue to appear in many more short stories and novels for the next 55 years. It was published in the United Kingdom by Methuen & Co. Appleton & Company on 3 September 1915, under the title Something New, having previously appeared under that title as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post between 26 June and 14 August 1915. It was first published as a book in the United States, by D.

Wodehouse that introduces the absentminded backwoods peer Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. Something Fresh is a comic novel by the British writer P.G.

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