num_pages: 272
description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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.
language: English
title: The Clicking of Cuthbert
titlecomplete: The Clicking of Cuthbert
characters: Mr.s Willoughby Smethurst, Wilberforce Bray, Alexander Paterson, Herbert Pobsley, Adeline Smethurst, Ascobaruch, Vladimir Brusiloff, Oldest Member, Agnes Parsons Jopp, Jane Jukes Jopp, J. Mortimer Sturgis, Sandy McHoots, Grace Forrester, Young Man, Mabel Somerset, George Perkins, George Lucas, Millicent Boyd, Ralph Bingham, Claude Mainwaring, Peter Willard, Eddie Denton, Freddie Woosley, Amanda Trivett, Celia Tennant, Royal Gardener, Amelia Merridew, High Priest of Hec, King Merolchazzar of Oom, Raymond Parsloe Devine, Mitchell Holmes, Rupert Bailey, Kitty Manders, Jimmy Fothergill, Arthur Jukes, Hemmingway, Eustace Brinkley, Rupert Dixon, Percival Brown, Luella Mainprice Jopp, James Todd, Grand Vizier, Ramsden Waters, Vincent Jopp, Eunice Bray, Major Moseby, George Mackintosh, Marcella Bingley, J. Cuthbert Banks, Betty Weston
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2287
series: Golf Stories
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society