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Jonathan Cecil
Birth date: February 20, 1939
Died: September 20, 2011
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sandin954
sandin954 rated it 14 years ago
One of P.G. Wodehouse's first published books in the States, the story is narrated by a young writer who somewhat hesitantly agrees to help out an old friend with newly hatched plan of running a chicken farm even though the friend, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, is described as "the sort of man ...
DP9
DP9 rated it 15 years ago
What a charming little collection of golf-related yarns. As I may have mentioned, although I don't play at all I'm a moderately fluent speaker of golf. (Thanks be to Wikipedia for the translations for the old fashioned names of clubs that preceded the current, rather prosaic numbering system.) Thi...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 17 years ago
More farce from the master.
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it 24 years ago
This title, delightfully read by Jonathan Cecil, will have you in stitches. There are few writers alive today who can match Wodehouse in his artful use of the language. Every line has some delightful pun or play on words, at least to my mental retina. Describing one of the Wodehouse plots is always ...
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