Tales from the Drones Club

by P.G. Wodehouse

Book Overview

Oh my, the droll humour of Mr. Wodehouse holds forth in this collection of tales. Enjoy them and drink his health! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566192447
• ISBN13: 9781566192446
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wodehouse can cure a rainy day

Any day where a person can sit inside and read P.G. Wodehouse is not a day wasted. His artful comic writing is not a thing anyone should miss, whether they have read books from many english authors before or not. Reading at least some of his Jeeves and Wooster stories before reading Tales from the Drones club will add interest to the tales woven therein. A knowledge of the history of Bingo Little and his doings will help you enjoy his many misadventures with his novelist wife, thier pekenise dogs, and thier hideous but very helpful baby. However, the stories can be enjoyed just as well on thier own without any prior history with Wodehouse. The stingy Oofy Prosser, the Scrooge of the Drones club is a delight, and it is even more delightful to see him lose the cash he yearns after when he is bamboozled by of P.G. Wodehouse's masterful plot misadventures. Everyone should read a Wodehouse book. It would probably cure all depression in the world.

Read this book. Now.

It's not every book I say this about, but if you like to laugh at all, you *must* read this book! I can't adequately describe it, but I'll give it a try...This is a book of short stories about a group of well-to-do young English gentlemen, members of the Drones, a London gentlemen's club, focusing on two in particular: Freddie Widgeon, who has loved and lost so many girls that if you put them end to end they would reach halfway down Picadilly (or so they say), and Bingo Little, perhaps the luckiest chap in the club: his perpetual betting habit lands in him in the stickiest situations outside of the Jeeves and Wooster stories, but his guardian angel or lucky star never fails him. Along the way you'll also meet Reginald "Pongo" Twistleton-Twistleton and his wonderful Uncle Fred, in the classic "Uncle Fred Flits By," among other extremely likeable, if mentally negligible, young men. I haven't done this book justice. You *must* read it for yourself.

Top Wodehouse

Who can resist the Drones Club, where the members bean each other with crusty rolls? In this collection, we see Freddie Widgeon, one of the Drones Club's outstanding chumps, alienating several of the varied objects of his affections, most memorably and hilariously in the side-splitting 'Good-Bye to all Cats.' We see also treachery at the Fat Uncles Sweep and other various greedy machinations of Oofy Prosser, as well as the scrapes Bingo Little's incurable gambling habit gets him into. In fact, every story in the collection is painfully funny (I mean that literally) except for 'The Amazing Hat Story.' But big deal. The rest of the book is Wodehouse in top form, and that covers not just a multitude of sins, but all sins.