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The Clicking of Cuthbert
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064077
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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The Clicking of Cuthbert

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1 Sept 2010
Paperback
1 July 2008
Hardback
15 Apr 2002
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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

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.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064077
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
Categories:

About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

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Also by P.G. Wodehouse

Jeeves Again
A Life in Letters
According to Jeeves
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Nothing Serious
The Man Upstairs
Barmy in Wonderland
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Praise for The Clicking of Cuthbert

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

Alan Ayckbourn

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

Marian Keyes

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him

John Humphrys

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists

Susan Hill

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

Julian Fellowes

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

Ben Elton

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

Douglas Adams

The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!

Kate Mosse

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Kathy Lette

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

Arabella Weir

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already

Lynne Truss

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

Stephen Fry
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