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 - Softcover

Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville

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9780140020489: 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

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ISBN 10: 0140020489 ISBN 13: 9780140020489

Publisher: Penguin, 1978

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"Golf (resumed the Oldest Member) is the Great Mystery. Like some capricious goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination ... Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small, white ball, which presents no difficulties whatever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo-clock. Mysterious, but there it is." A classic collection of golfing disasters and triumphs, moments of elation and despair in the hearts of golfers and young lovers ...

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Review:

"Nothing will ever dim the brilliance of Wodehouse's world or flatten his ever-sprightly and always entertaining prose" (John Mortimer The Sunday Times)

"What can one say about Wodehouse? He exhausts superlatives. I am not alone in believing he has come closer than any writer of English to approaching Shakespeare's complete mastery and transcendency of language." (Stephen Fry)

"Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in " (Evelyn Waugh)

From the Publisher:

Had his only contribution to literature been Lord Emsworth and Blandings Castle, his place in history would have been assured. Had he written of none but Mike and Psmith, he would be cherished today as the best and brightest of our comic authors. If Jeeves and Wooster had been his solitary theme, still he would be hailed as The Master. If he had given us only Ukridge, or nothing but recollections of the Mulliner family, or a pure diet of golfing stories, Wodehouse would nonetheless be considered immortal. That he gave us all those and more - so much more - is our good fortune and a testament to the most industrious, prolific and beneficent author ever to have sat down, scratched his head and banged out a sentence.' Stephen Fry

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