num_pages: 240
description: "In nine of Wodehouse's ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when he discovers the game, to Rollo Podmarsh, who finisheshis round even when he thinks himself fatally poisoned, and Chester Meredith who discovers eloquence on the eighteenth green, we meet the full range of humanity in fair weather and foul"--Jacket.
language: English
title: The Heart of a Goof
titlecomplete: The Heart of a Goof
characters: Sandy McHoots, Rollo Podmarsh, Enid Willoughby, Blizzard, Alfred, Evangeline Fisher, Oldest Member, Bradbury Fisher, Jane Simpson, Perkins, Broster, Ted Ray, George Parsloe, Chester Meredith, J. Bladstone Bott, Cyril Delancy, Rupert Blake, Charlotte Dix, Crispin Blakeney, Gloria Gooch, Barbara Medway, Lettice Willoughby, Miss Osbaldistone, Wallace Chesney, Anastatia Bates, Felicia Blakeney, Mary Kent, William Bates, Ferdinand Dibble, Jane Waterfield, Rupert Worple, Colonel Bodger, Mrs. Podmarsh, Hildebrand Vosper, Mrs. Pettigrew, Spike Higgins, Peter Willard, Wilmot Royce, Mabel Patmore, Reginald Brown, Lora Smith Maplebury, Nathaniel Frisby, Young Man, Braid Vardon Bates, Jimmy Fothergill, Raymond Gandle, Clifford Wimple, Secretary of Club, George William Pennefather, Jane Packard, Jenkinson, Rodney Spelvin
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Classics, British Literature, Sports, Comedy, Historical Fiction, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 1163
series: Golf Stories
publisher: Penguin Books