Book description
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.
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.
