Young Men in Spats

p.g. wodehouse

Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master.

Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless Jeeves out of sight, on vacation! Poor Bertie nearly becomes unstuck! Young Men in Spats is Wodehouse at his most stories concerning members of the inimitable Drones Club-they may be small of brain and short on cash but they are always good for ingenious adventures. And in The Luck of the Bodkins , the action spans London, New York, Hollywood, and several transatlantic liners, as three dapper young men find themselves in various Wodehousian predicaments concerning their love lives and finances.

Each volume has been reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth. These novels are elegant and essential additions to any Wodehouse fan's library.

Genres fictionhumorshort storiesclassicscomedyaudiobookliteraturebritish literature20th centuryromance

259 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1936

Series

Uncle Fred

This edition

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 23, 2002 by The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781585673377
ASIN: 1585673374
Language: English

Characters More characters

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton

Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, living at Ickenham Hall, Bishops Ickenham, Hants. Valerie and Pongo Twistleton-Twistletons Uncle Fred in Uncle Fred Flits By, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktai...
Cyril Fotheringay-phipps

Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay (pron. Fungy)-Phipps, son of Ruby Poskitt, a tall, willowy Drone with hair the color of creamery butter. Nephew to Theodore, Lord Binghampton. A graduate of Eton and Oxford, has inherited a small fortune from his maternal grandfa...
Frederick Fotheringay Widgeon

Frederick Fotheringay Widgeon, a Drone in Fate, Noblesse Oblige, Good-Bye to All Cats, Trouble Down at Tudsleigh, The Masked Troubadour, The Code of the Woosters, Bramley Is So Bracing, Joy in the Morning, Freddie, Oofy, and the Beef Trust, Ring For Jeeve...
Reginald G. Twistleton-twistleton

Reginald G. "Pongo" Twistleton-Twistleton, nephew of Fred Twistleton (Lord Ickenham) in The Luck of the Stiffhams, Tried in the Furnace, Uncle Fred Flits By, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Ring For Jeeves, Cocktail Time, Service With a Smil...
Joseph Widgeon

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Nelson Cork

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About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).