P.G. Wodehouse has a reputation as one of the wittiest and funniest writers of English. Weekend Wodehouse is a sampler of short pieces from the master, providing a taste of his various characters and styles.
Wodehouse's way with a sentence is undeniable and Wildean. But because he restricts himself to comic tales about the British upper class, his stories inevitably sound like anecdotes shared over a pint at a club in the 1930s. That's his intent, but I don't find them engaging.
I picked up Weekend Wodehouse in a used copy at Moe's Books. The pages had an appropriately musty smell.
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