Classic fiction

Young Men in Spats

by P.G. Wodehouse

240 pages · First published 1936

The young men of London’s Drones Club have money, leisure, and an extraordinary ability to turn minor romantic or financial problems into elaborate disasters. Pongo Twistleton, Freddie Widgeon, and other familiar Wodehouse characters stumble through courtship, wagers, mistaken assumptions, eccentric relatives, and schemes that rarely survive contact with reality. Several stories introduce or expand characters who recur elsewhere in Wodehouse’s comic world, including the formidable Uncle Fred. This collection of eleven stories offers concentrated Wodehouse: verbal wit, idle young gentlemen, social absurdity, and ingenious escapes from problems almost entirely of their own making.