Six short stories by P.G. Wodehouse: Read it online; 3/5

    I am on a mission to read everything which Wodehouse has ever written and hence ended up reading this.

This can be renamed "five stories and an opinion piece". The tale, which is not quite a story, is actually an article about divorce.

The five stories vary in their subjects from romantic trouble to a king who doesn't know the meaning of work to a man who begins to be known by his wife's surname.

I read this because I wanted to smile a bit and it was, at 35 odd pages, rather small in length and hence promised a breezy read.

The book is funny in parts. I loved the first story about the romantic tangle which gets resolved via a competition. Then there was a really funny bit about a serious poem which draws out guffaws from its listeners.

However, the book generally fails to rise to the stratospheric heights of rapier sharp Woodhousean wit. 

Check it out online if you must if you are a die hard Woodhouse fan. For others, they can safely skip this without any regret.