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THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT
de Wodehouse, P. G
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926. Pp. 256; cr. 8vo; pictorial green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green, lightly soiled and worn, the fore-corners and bottom edge of lower board lightly bruised, fore-edge of upper board frayed at a couple of points, the spine lightly faded; hinges cracking, free endpapers slightly offset, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Herbert Jenkins, London, n.d.[1926?]. Seventh printing. McIlvaine A27a.6. *Lacking the dust wrapper. Golf stories, first published in 1922.
Sinopsis
From the book:This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself in the twenties again. As a writer of light fiction, I have always till now been handicapped by the fact that my disposition was cheerful, my heart intact, and my life unsoured. Handicapped, I say, because the public likes to feel that a writer of farcical stories is piquantly miserable in his private life, and that, if he turns out anything amusing, he does it simply in order to obtain relief from the almost insupportable weight of an existence which he has long since realized to be a wash-out. Well, today I am just like that. Two years ago, I admit, I was a shallow farceur. My work lacked depth. I wrote flippantly simply because I was having a thoroughly good time. Then I took up golf, and now I can smile through the tears and laugh, like Figaro, that I may not weep, and generally hold my head up and feel that I am entitled to respect.
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- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT
- Autor
- Wodehouse, P. G
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Herbert Jenkins
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1926
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