num_pages: 256
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: Nathaniel Frisby, Ted Ray, Colonel Bodger, Barbara Medway, Oldest Member, Secretary of Club, Jane Simpson, Perkins, Jimmy Fothergill, Alfred, Jenkinson, Mrs. Podmarsh, Ferdinand Dibble, Enid Willoughby, Anastatia Bates, Young Man, Rupert Worple, Clifford Wimple, Rodney Spelvin, Mrs. Pettigrew, Broster, Bradbury Fisher, Felicia Blakeney, George William Pennefather, Wallace Chesney, Jane Waterfield, Blizzard, Rupert Blake, Rollo Podmarsh, Lettice Willoughby, Miss Osbaldistone, J. Bladstone Bott, Gloria Gooch, Peter Willard, Crispin Blakeney, Charlotte Dix, Raymond Gandle, Chester Meredith, Jane Packard, Evangeline Fisher, Cyril Delancy, Hildebrand Vosper, Braid Vardon Bates, Mabel Patmore, Spike Higgins, Sandy McHoots, William Bates, Lora Smith Maplebury, Reginald Brown, George Parsloe, Wilmot Royce, Mary Kent
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Literature, Comedy, Classics, British Literature, Sports, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 1163
series: Golf Stories
publisher: Harry N. Abrams