Fore!: The Best Of Wodehouse On Golf

by P. G. Wodehouse

Overview

FORE! Is a collection of ten short golf stories by the famous humorist P.G. Wodehouse, a genuine golf addict. The talent he displayed when writing lyrics for Broadway shows like Oscar Hammerstein's "Show Boat" and "Anything Goes," plus the movies adapted from his stories comes through without effort in these stories, which include the following - as told by The 'Eldest Member' of Wodehouse's country club, as he sits in the bar at the nineteenth hole: "THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT" "A WOMAN IS ONLY A WOMAN" "A MIXED THREESOME" "SUNDERED HEARTS" "THE SALVATION OF GEORGE MACKINTOSH" "ORDEAL BY GOLF" "THE LONG HOLE" "THE HEEL OF ACHILLES" "THE ROUGH STUFF" "THE COMING OF GOWF" As an extra added feature, the publisher (Magic Lamp Press) has added an appendix containing select quotes from the Wodehouse works, as well as numerous humorous utterances about golf made by other celebrities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438230344
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/13/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (nicknamed "Plum: " a rapidly pronounced Pelham) was born 10/15/1881 in Guildford, Surrey, England and educated at Dulwich College. In 1900 he started working at the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank at a salary of 80 pounds per year. He began writing articles for various newspapers & periodicals in 1902 and resigned from the bank the same year, when his 1st novel "The Pothunters" was published In April 1904 he arrived in New York and began his career as a lyricist in musicals. As the money started to come in Plum bought a car and after one lesson crashed into a hedge. He never drove again. He wrote many highly successful novels and in 1929 signed a contract to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and caused a public relations disaster when he complained of being paid far too much money for far too little work. In 1932 Plum returned to England for a short time before settling in France In 1940 Germany occupied France and Plum was interned as a German prisoner. During that period of time, Germany was not yet at war with Britain, so he was allowed to make five radio broadcasts that were widely misconstrued and he was vilified and persecuted by the BBC and the English press because they were interpreted as being 'pro-Nazi, ' due to his telling his literary fans that he was being treated well by his captors. The Germans discontinued the broadcasts when they figured out that in his subtle manner, he was actually making fun of them. Unfortunately, that humor was lost on the British. Confidential records now released show that Wodehouse was totally innocent of the accusations against him, and guilty perhaps only of a little naivety. In 1945, George Orwell wrote "In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse." Full transcripts of all five broadcasts can be read at http: //www.pgwodehousebooks.com/berlin1.htm. In 1947 Plum moved back to the USA and became a citizen here in 1955, where he continued working until Valentine's day, 1975, when he died in the hospital "after a good morning's work on his latest novel" He will probably be most remembered for his creation of the popular duo "Jeeves & Wooster."

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1881

Date of Death:

February 14, 1975

Place of Birth:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Place of Death:

Southampton, New York

Education:

Dulwich College, 1894-1900

Editorial Reviews

.,." an orgy of hijinks on the links and in the clubhouse."

..." an orgy of hijinks on the links and in the clubhouse."

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