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The Battle of Squashy Hollow

The Battle of Squashy Hollow

by P. G. Wodehouse, Argosy (UK) Vol. XXVI, No. 10 (October 1965), 14-28.

Magazine cover: Argosy (UK) Vol. XXVI, No. 10 (October 1965); review of “The Battle of Squashy Hollow” by P. G. Wodehouse, pp. 14-28.

By Wodehouse’s standards a fairly tame and inconsequential short story—involving golf and marriage proposals, two staples of the Wodehouse diet, but also hypnotism, which isn’t. Droll enough, but the protagonist’s troubles are never really plumbed and he is extricated without difficulty.

The Clicking of Cuthbert

The Clicking of Cuthbert

by P. G. Wodehouse (Herbert Jenkins, 1922)

audiobook read by Frederick Davidson (Blackstone, 1998)

Book cover: “The Clicking of Cuthbert” by P. G. Wodehouse (Herbert Jenkins, 1922); audiobook read by Frederick Davidson (Blackstone, 1998)

Ten golfing short stories, diverting enough when taken individually but together not unlike hacking at the Lernaean Hydra with a niblick. Wodehouse evinces his usual way with words but, tongue-in-cheek fantasy historical tale ‘The Coming of Gowf’ notwithstanding, lacks for club selection.

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