Editing Something Fresh (section)

{{Short description|1915 novel by P. G. Wodehouse}}
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{{Infobox book <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
 | name         = Something Fresh
 | title_orig   = Something Fresh
 | image        = Image:SomethingNew.jpg
 | caption      = First US edition
 | author       = [[P. G. Wodehouse]]
 | cover_artist =
 | country      = United Kingdom
 | language     = English
 | series       =
 | genre        = [[Comic novel]]
 | publisher    = [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]]<br>[[D. Appleton & Company]]
 | release_date = 16 September 1915
 | media_type   = Print (hard~ & paperback)
 | pages        = 190
 | followed_by  = [[Leave it to Psmith]]}}
'''''Something Fresh''''' is a novel by [[P. G. Wodehouse]], first published as ''Something New'' in the United States, by [[D. Appleton & Company]] on 3 September 1915.<ref name=McIl>McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) ''P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist''. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 27–28. {{ISBN|0-87008125-X}}.</ref> It was published in the United Kingdom as "Something Fresh" by [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen & Co.]] on 16 September 1915.<ref name=McIl /> There are a number of differences between the American and British versions, but essentially, it is the same book. The novel introduces [[Lord Emsworth]] of [[Blandings Castle]], whose home and [[List of P. G. Wodehouse characters#Threepwood family|family]] reappear in many of Wodehouse's later short stories and novels.

The story is a comic caricature of English aristocratic life and the American aristocracy of wealth. The servants of the [[English country house]], who follow a very elaborate hierarchy and take meals at many different social levels, mimic their betters, "and in so doing make their betters look absurd".<ref>French (1966), pp. 55–59.</ref>