Something New

<p><i>Something New</i> is the first novel of what became known as the “Blandings Castle Saga” by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse"><abbr>P. G.</abbr> Wodehouse</a> and was published in the United States in 1915. Two Americans, Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, endeavor to retrieve a scarab pilfered from an American millionaire by the absent-minded Lord Emsworth. Marson and Valentine soon find themselves impersonating servants while evading the Efficient Baxter.</p>

<p>The story was originally serialized in the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> as <i>Something Fresh</i> in 1915. It introduced who would become the recurring characters of Blandings Castle: Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Rupert Baxter, and Sebastian Beach.</p>