Book description
Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all
crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent
fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's when they're not recovering
from driving their sports cars through rather than round Marble Arch.
These wonderful comic short stories are the essence of innocent fun.
In them you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favourite characters -
including, for the first time, his future hero Uncle Fred. The
collection is widely regarded as one of Wodehouse's best and includes
one of his own favourites, 'The Amazing Hat Mystery'.
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves,
Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G.
Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two
years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer,
contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and
short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage
had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in
the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue
Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
