Something New, P.G. Wodehouse
Something New, P.G. Wodehouse
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Something New
Blandings Castle, Book 1

Author: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 03/30/2012

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Classic

Synopsis

Downton Abbey - PG Wodehouse style!

Here we have a glorious ensemble of Wodehousian characters knocking elbows to foreheads in the elegant and grand Blandings Castle. Meet Freddy Threepwood, the vagrant son of doddering old Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. Freddy has recently become engaged to Aline Peters, the American heiress of an irascible father. The snag is that Freddy seems to have at one point become enamored of a struggling actress, Joan Valentine, and written some impetuous and imprudent letters to her. Joan has now moved on and is currently employed as a writer for a magazine’s society column. Freddy has employed a certain R. Jones, a man of portly and dubious character, to attempt to buy back Freddy’s letters, and keep his engagement safe. We also meet Ache Marson, an athlete who writes the Gridley Quayle series of pulp mystery stories, and also lives in the flat just below the actress/writer Joan Valentine. Got that strait? Sound confusing? Wait till we get going.

Narrated by B.J. Harrison of The Classic Tales Podcast who brings each whimsical Wodehouse character to life with his usual, wonderful gusto.

About P.G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English writer best known for his humorous novels and plays with such memorable characters as, Psmith, Mr. Mulliner, Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves. A prolific writer with some ninety books, forty plays, and two hundred short stories to his credit, he has been described as a “comic poet” with a gift for high farce.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

Ashe Marson is a writer but doesn't feel like one just before the start of the war in London no German bombs falling there yet they will, indiscriminately killing the unfortunate from airplanes or other flying crafts under the celestial sky... in World War 1. You would have the same sentiment if as......more

Goodreads review by Anne

1st Blandings Castle book. Something fresh would probably feel fresher if Wodehouse's stories didn't all blend together for me. I'm not complaining. Really. This is another excellent example of how witty escapism meets if it ain't broke don't fix it and they live Happily Ever After. Freddie and his fa......more

Goodreads review by Baba

Blandings #1: The first installment of the now modern classic Blandings saga, introduces the Blandings' residents, the dotty Lord Emsworth, his irrepressible heir, Freddie Threepwood and the eccentric staff. Lord Emsworth absentmindedly pockets a rare valuable scarab, and as a result of this Wodehou......more

Goodreads review by Apatt

“Ashe's first impression of Beach, the butler, was one of tension. Other people, confronted for the first time with Beach, had felt the same. He had that strained air of being on the very point of bursting that one sees in bullfrogs and toy balloons. Nervous and imaginative men, meeting Beach, brace......more

Goodreads review by Helle

(3.5 stars) A light, amusing snack between meatier meals, this is the first installment in Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle series and every bit as silly, witty and delightfully early 20th century (published in 1915) as the other books I’ve read by him (though I think I prefer Jeeves & Wooster). The char......more

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