Published by Arrow, part of Cornerstone Publishing
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
P G Wodehouse
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099513865
£7.99
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EAN: 9780099513865
Published: 1 May 2008
A Golf collection
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.
Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He's helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his holes in one when she's in thrall to Culture and prefers rising young writers to winners of the French Open? But enter a Great Russian Novelist with a strange passion, and Cuthbert's prospects are transformed. Then look at what happens to young Mitchell Holmes, who misses short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. His career seems on the skids - but can golf redeem it?
In this collection, the kindly but shrewd gaze of the Oldest Member picks out some of the funniest stories Wodehouse ever wrote.
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It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him
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For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day
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Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already
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The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!
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Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists
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P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection
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A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting
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Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
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The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
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The funniest writer ever to put words to paper
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The greatest comic writer ever
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P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
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Sublime comic genius
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You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour
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The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
