P. G Wodehouse

When Monty Bodkin chooses the Drones Club over the Bunch of Grapes, it affects "the destinies of Ronald Fish and his betrothed, Sue Brown; of Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, and his pig, Empress of Blandings; of Lord Tilbury, from the Mammoth Publishing Company; and of the unpleasant Percy Pilbeam, proprietor of the Argus Private Inquiry Agency."--Cover.

Jeeves belongs to a club for butlers, and one of the rules is that every member must contribute to the club book everything about the fellow he's working for. Jeeves is so taken with his employer, Bertie Wooster, that he writes eighteen pages about him--and Bertie, quite naturally, is perturbed. Suppose the book falls into the wrong hands ...

An artist, Joss Weatherby, falls in love with Sally Fairmile, who is engaged to Lord Holbeton. Wnen imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her-- her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation, Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holbeton, and, most of all, Mrs. Chavender's own one-time fiance, 'Ham King' J.B....

A private detective who can make the guilty confess simply by smiling at them. An artist so intimidated by his morally impeccable cat that he feels compelled to wear formal attire at dinner. A devotee of Proust whose life is turned upside down when he inadvertently subscribes to a correspondence course on "How to Acquire Complete Self-Confidence and an Iron Will." These are just a few of the many members of the eccentric Mulliner clan whose lives...

George Uffenham, the eccentric sixth viscount of Uffenham, has just converted the family fortune into diamonds-and stashed them away in a secret hiding place. But as luck would have it, an unfortunate car accident soon thereafter causes him to forget the jewels' location. In order to recover the gems, he must let out his estate, Shipley Hall, to big game hunter Clarissa Cork and return posing as the butler, Cakebread. Thus disguised, he will have...

This presents six stories of Wodehouse's comic mastery of English prose.

"A dozen tales of fiendish cunning."

Two beautiful American girls decide to have a fling on the Continent - a Wodehousian extravaganza in which true love triumphs.

Englishman fulfills the conditions imposed by his prospective father-in-law, only to find other trials awaiting when he goes to claim his bride.