Something fresh - (blandings castle)

Product Description ‘You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.’ Stephen Fry From the Back Cover A Blandings novel This 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... "Something Fresh is a story about, among other things, a scarab. And not just any scarab: A Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty!When the absentminded Earl of Emsworth pockets the prize piece of Mr. J. Preston Peters collection of scarabs, he sets in motion an adventure that only the wonderful world of Blandings Castle could house. Mr. Peters offers a lucrative reward to Mr. Ashe Marson to retrieve the scarab. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter Aline has hired Joan Valentine to do the same. Also at Blandings is George Emerson, who wants to marry Aline. But Aline is engaged to Lord Emsworths son, the Honorable Freddie Threepwood, who fears that Joan is going to sue him for breach of promise. In all of this, of course, no one can take a step without tripping over Lord Emsworths secretary, the Efficient Baxter." -- Amazon.com A beautiful new edition of this classic. This 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 log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable Egyptian amulet 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. This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P.G. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'.