Editing Drones Club (section)

==Stories==

Among the Wodehouse works, what was later dubbed the "Drones Club series" is a loose set of separate stories told by various narrators about members of the Drones Club. Many of the stories are told at the club or have some events happening at the club.

; Main canon

The main canon consists of 21 short stories (nine [[Bingo Little]], eight Freddie Widgeon, and four other Drones, including the one introducing [[Pongo Twistleton]] and his [[Uncle Fred]]), as eventually collected in the omnibus:

* ''Tales from the Drones Club''<ref>
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</ref> (1982) later ''The Drones Omnibus'' (1991)

The same set of short stories is also available in their original collections:

* Collected in ''[[Young Men in Spats]]'' (1936)
** "[[Fate (short story)|Fate]]" (Freddie Widgeon)
** "[[Tried in the Furnace]]" (Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps and [[Pongo Twistleton]])
** "[[Trouble Down at Tudsleigh]]" (Freddie Widgeon)
** "[[The Amazing Hat Mystery]]" (Percy Wimbolt and Nelson Cork)
** "[[Goodbye to All Cats]]" (Freddie Widgeon)
** "[[The Luck of the Stiffhams]]" (Stiffy Stiffham)
** "[[Noblesse Oblige (short story)|Noblesse Oblige]]" (Freddie Widgeon)
** "[[Uncle Fred Flits By]]" (Pongo Twistleton with Uncle Fred)
* Collected in ''[[Lord Emsworth and Others]]'' (1937)
** "[[The Masked Troubadour]]" (Freddie Widgeon)
* Collected in ''[[Eggs, Beans and Crumpets]]'' (1940)
** "[[All's Well with Bingo]]" ([[Bingo Little]])
** "[[Bingo and the Peke Crisis]]" (Bingo Little)
** "[[The Editor Regrets]]" (Bingo Little)
** "[[Sonny Boy (short story)|Sonny Boy]]" (Bingo Little with [[Oofy Prosser]])
* Collected in ''[[Nothing Serious (short stories)|Nothing Serious]]'' (1950)
** "[[The Shadow Passes]]" (Bingo Little)
** "[[Bramley Is So Bracing]]" (Freddie Widgeon with Bingo Little)
* Collected in ''[[A Few Quick Ones]]'' (1959)
** "[[The Fat of the Land (short story)|The Fat of the Land]]" (Freddie Widgeon with Oofy Prosser)
** "[[The Word in Season]]" (Bingo Little)
** "[[Leave it to Algy]]" (Bingo Little with Oofy Prosser)
** "[[Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust]]" (Freddie Widgeon with Oofy Prosser)
* Collected in ''[[Plum Pie]]'' (1966)
** "[[Bingo Bans the Bomb]]" (Bingo Little with Freddie Widgeon)
** "[[Stylish Stouts]]" (Bingo Little)

; Additional novels

Six novels about the adventures of Drones Club Members as main protagonist:

* ''[[Money for Nothing (novel)|Money for Nothing]]'' (1928) – novel about Hugo Carmody and Ronnie Fish
* ''[[The Luck of the Bodkins]]'' (1935) – novel about Monty Bodkin with Reggie Tennyson
* ''[[Laughing Gas (novel)|Laughing Gas]]'' (1936) – novel about Reginald Swithin
* ''[[Barmy in Wonderland]]'' (1952) – novel about Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps
* ''[[Ice in the Bedroom]]'' (1961) – novel about Freddie Widgeon with Oofy Prosser
* ''[[Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin]]'' (1972) – novel about Monty Bodkin

; Related stories

Related are all stories about those Drones Club members already part of another series ([[Jeeves]] and Bertie, [[Blandings Castle|Blandings]]'s Freddie Threepwood, [[Uncle Fred]] and Pongo, [[Psmith]], [[Mr Mulliner]]'s nephew Archibald Mulliner), but more especially:

* ''[[The Inimitable Jeeves]]'' (1923) – Jeeves semi-novel, Bertie and Bingo, some events at the club
* ''[[Leave it to Psmith]]'' (1923) – Psmith and Blandings novel, also Freddie Threepwood, some events at the club
* Collected in ''[[Mr Mulliner Speaking]]'' (1929)
** "[[The Reverent Wooing of Archibald]]" (1928) – Archibald Mulliner and Algy Wymondham-Wymondham, starts at the club, told by Mr Mulliner
* ''[[Summer Lightning]]'' (1929) – Blandings novel with Hugo Carmody and Ronnie Fish
* ''[[Heavy Weather (Wodehouse novel)|Heavy Weather]]'' (1933) – Blandings novel with Hugo Carmody and Ronnie Fish, also Monty Bodkin, some events at the club
* Collected in ''[[Young Men in Spats]]'' (1936)
** "[[Young Men in Spats#"Archibald and the Masses"|Archibald and the Masses]]" (1935) – Archibald Mulliner, told by Mr Mulliner
** "[[Young Men in Spats#"The Code of the Mulliners"|The Code of the Mulliners]]" (1935) – Archibald Mulliner, told by Mr Mulliner
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* ''[[Uncle Fred in the Springtime]]'' (1939) – Uncle Fred and Blandings novel, action started by Pongo, Horace, and Oofy at the club
* ''[[Cocktail Time]]'' (1958) – Uncle Fred novel, some events with Pongo at the club
* "[[Life with Freddie]]" in ''[[Plum Pie]]'' (1966) – Freddie Threepwood, some events with the club's barman

; Relatable story

Relatable is one story, which features the club and a Drone as a secondary character, and marks the first mention of the Drones Club:

* ''[[Jill the Reckless]]'' (1921) – novel, Drone Algy Martyn as secondary character, one chapter at the club

Many more stories simply include a Drones member in some scenes, or have mentions of club members.

; Not included <!--CHRONOLOGICALLY-->

Not included are all identical stories published under other titles (in magazines or U.S. versions), or "recycled" stories, especially:

* "[[Comrade Bingo]]" and "[[Bingo and the Little Woman]]" (Bingo Little) – 1922 magazine stories merged into the semi-novel ''The Inimitable Jeeves'' (1923)
* "Quest" (Freddie Widgeon) – 1931 magazine story rewritten as "[[Mulliner Nights#"The Knightly Quest of Mervyn"|The Knightly Quest of Mervyn]]" (Mr Mulliner, non-Drones story, still featuring Oofy Prosser)
* "The Ordeal of Bingo Little" (Bingo Little) – 1954 magazine story rewritten as "Leave It to Algy"<ref>
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</ref> (Bingo Little, included above)
* "Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot" (Drone Dudley "Biffy" Wix-Biffen) – 1958 "exclusive" story recycled<ref name="KozyKot">
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</ref> for the U.S. edition of ''[[A Few Quick Ones]]'' (1959) from "[[Fixing it for Freddie]]" (Jeeves story)
* "The Great Fat Uncle Contest" (Bingo Little) – 1965 magazine rewrite of "Stylish Stouts" (Bingo Little, included above)