Something Fresh

Something Fresh
First US edition
AuthorP. G. Wodehouse
Original titleSomething Fresh
LanguageEnglish
GenreComic novel
PublisherMethuen
D. Appleton & Company
Publication date
16 September 1915
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hard~ & paperback)
Pages190
Followed byLeave 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. It was published in the United Kingdom as "Something Fresh" by Methuen & Co. on 16 September 1915. 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 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".