Young Men in Spats in Reading Wodehouse

Nov 03, 2015 Anna Kļaviņa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, british-irish, humour, rakstnieks, read-in-2015

Fate
Tried in the Furnace
Trouble Down at Tudsleigh
The Amazing Hat Mystery
Goodbye to all Cats
The Luck of the Stiffhams
Noblesse Oblige
Uncle Fred Flits By
Archibald and the Masses
The Code of the Mulliners
The Fiery Wooing of Mordred

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Jul 22, 2018 Arthur Pierce rated it liked it · review of another edition

As I've said elsewhere, I'm generally not as fond of short story collections of P.G. Wodehouse as I am of his novels; purely a personal preference, as he was quite a master of the form at times. And, indeed many of the stories in YOUNG MEN IN SPATS are excellent, particularly the famous "Uncle Fred Flits By." The American edition of the book, containing a dozen stories, has three golf tales (told by The Oldest Member) not in the British edition, and the British version (with 11 stories), has two ...more

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Feb 24, 2019 Joe Stevens rated it it was amazing

I often find the short story collections of PG Wodehouse to be something like the old albums of music I used to buy before the advent of the digital world. They often had a couple fine songs mixed with mostly forgettable ones. Being Wodehouse, even the less memorable stories often are enjoyable, especially when they revolve around Jeeves & Wooster or Blandings.

This is a collection of tales about the assorted members of the Drones club and a few Mr. Mulliner stories has a surprisingly high number ...more

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