Something Fresh
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099513780 (0099513781)
Publish date: June 3rd 2008
Publisher: Arrow Books
Pages no: 260
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century
Series: Blandings Castle (#1)
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