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 ...
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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'.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean cover, no edgewear, tight glued binding, square, pages edges clean and white; First two pages before title page have a tiny slit on the fore edge. Pages clean and free from any markings, no creases. These stories are the essence of innocent fun. These young men are all members of the Drones Club and the reader will meet some of Wodehouse's favorite characters. 259 pages plus 5 pages excerpt from Wodehouse's "Mr. Mulliner Speaking". 5 x 7.75 inches. 2009, ArrowBooks/Random House, London, England.
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Very Good. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
A series of unrelated stories - many published elsewhere - all of which are up to the brilliant, and expected, PGW standard.
GrannyNanny
Jul 30, 2009
Craftsman of the word
If it were only for "Uncle Fred Flits By," this would be worth owning. I read that aloud to my children, and we kept having to stop and gasp for breath. What an artist!
