Short Stories

This collection gathers Wodehouse's short fiction from the early twentieth century onward. Typical cycles follow Bertie Wooster and the valet Jeeves through London clubs and country weekends; other groups visit Blandings Castle, the golf course, and the world of impecunious young men who need a job or an engagement. Plots turn on impersonation, stolen objects, irate aunts, and last-minute rescues. The tone is farce in polished slang. The book is a set of independent comic stories, not a single novel and not a tract on the British class system.

Bound in brown cloth with a "dogtooth" check pattern in gilt on covers. Pale brown endleaves. Pale brown slipcase.