The Heart of a Goof: High Stakes; Keeping in with Vosper; Chester Forgets Himself; the Magic Plus Fours; the Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh; Rodney Falls ... Fairway; the Purification of Rodney Spelvin

by P.G.Wodehouse (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1972

  $3.75

  Nine stories recounted by the Oldest Member, about the so-called game of golf...

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $4.42

  It was a morning when all of nature shouted 'Fore!' 'If ever comic writing captured the joy of doing the long twelfth at Auchtermuchtie in one under bogey, here it is. Wodehouse keeps his eye on the ball and never presses, his clear shots to the emerald fairway leaving lesser writers to hunt furiously in the long rough, chewing their niblicks and snapping their spoons. Once you have begun them, you will go through Wodehouse's classic golf stories like a bullet through a cream puff. They are sheer, kick-up-your-heels bliss.' - Lynne Truss.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.49

  A Golf collection From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher's fifth wife and a notorious 'golfing giggler', to poor Rollo Podmarsh whose game was so unquestionably inept that 'he began to lose his appetite and would moan feebly at the sight of a poached egg', the game of golf, its players and their friends and enemies are here shown in all their comic glory. One of Wodehouse's funniest books, The Heart of Goof is a collection of peerlessly comic short stories.

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $17.60

  In nine of Wodehouse's ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when he discovers the game, to Rollo Podmarsh, who finishes his round even when he thinks himself fatally poisoned, and Chester Meredith who discovers eloquence on the eighteenth green, we meet the full range of humanity in fair weather and foul. P.G. Wodehouse is recognised as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Everyman Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset. Each Everyman volume will be the finest edition of the master ever published.