ISBN: 9781495951541

This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the s… Meer...

This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself in the twenties again.As a writer of light fiction, I have always till now been handicapped by the fact that my disposition was cheerful, my heart intact, and my life unsoured. Handicapped, I say, because the public likes to feel that a writer of farcical stories is piquantly miserable in his private life, and that, if he turns out anything amusing, he does it simply in order to obtain relief from the almost insupportable weight of an existence which he has long since realized to be a wash-out. Well, today I am just like that.Two years ago, I admit, I was a shallow farceur. My work lacked depth. I wrote flippantly simply because I was having a thoroughly good time. Then I took up golf, and now I can smile through the tears and laugh, like Figaro, that I may not weep, and generally hold my head up and feel that I am entitled to respect.If you find anything in this volume that amuses you, kindly bear in mind that it was probably written on my return home after losing three balls in the gorse or breaking the head off a favourite driver: and, with a murmured "Brave fellow! Brave fellow!" recall the story of the clown jesting while his child lay dying at home. That is all. Thank you for your sympathy. It means more to me than I can say. Do you think that if I tried the square stance for a bit.... But, after all, this cannot interest you. Leave me to my misery. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

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ISBN: 9781495951541

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Clicking of Cuthbert - By P. G. Wodehouse - Classic Short Stories. The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of ten short … Meer...

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Clicking of Cuthbert - By P. G. Wodehouse - Classic Short Stories. The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, all with a golfing theme. It was first published in the United Kingdom on February 3, 1922, by Herbert Jenkins Ltd of London. It was later published in the United States by George H. Doran of New York on May 28, 1924, under the title Golf Without Tears. There are some slight differences between the two editions, chiefly as regards the names of places and golfers, which were adapted to suit the country of publication. The first story in the collection introduces the Oldest Member, a repeat Wodehouse character, who narrates all but the last story. Three stories in the collection-"The Clicking of Cuthbert," "Ordeal by Golf," and "The Long Hole"-were filmed in 1924 as part of a series of six films of Wodehouse golf stories. Peter Haddon played Cuthbert., Contemporary Fiction<

ISBN: 9781495951541

P. G. Wodehouse was born to a well-off English family in Hong Kong. He had a happy childhood, and became a banker. He hated the job, and soon turned to writing. He was one of the most pop… Meer...

P. G. Wodehouse was born to a well-off English family in Hong Kong. He had a happy childhood, and became a banker. He hated the job, and soon turned to writing. He was one of the most popular comic writers in the twentieth century. This is a collection of ten short stories about golfing. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Fiction, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781495951541

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