Щелчок Катберта: Гольф в рассказах Вудхауса

1922 short story collection by P. G. Wodehouse

The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, all with a golfing theme. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 3 February 1922 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd of London. It was later published in the United States by George H. Doran of New York on 28 May 1924 under the title Golf Without Tears. The short stories were originally published in magazines between 1919 and 1922. There are some slight differences between the two editions, chiefly as regards the names of characters, places, and famous golfers, which were adapted to suit the country of publication. The first story in the collection introduces the Oldest Member, a repeat Wodehouse character, who narrates all but the last story.

The book has a long dedication beginning with: "To the Immortal Memory of John Henrie and Pat Rogie". There is also a preface by Wodehouse, titled Fore!. Wilmot Lunt illustrated "The Unexpected Clicking of Cuthbert". "Popini" illustrated "A Woman is Only a Woman". A. T. Smith illustrated "A Kink in His Character" ("Ordeal by Golf"). A. Wallis Mills illustrated "The Long Hole". Alfred Leete illustrated "The Heel of Achilles". G. Morrow illustrated "The Coming of Gowf". In McClure's (US), May Wilson Preston illustrated "A Mixed Threesome" and "Sundered Hearts", Tony Sarg illustrated "The Long Hole" and "The Coming of Gowf", and Lee Conrey illustrated "The Salvation of George Mackintosh". "Cuthbert Unexpectedly Clicks" was illustrated by Ray Rohn in Elk's Magazine. "Ordeal by Golf" was illustrated by Wallace Morgan in Collier's. "A Woman is Only a Woman" was illustrated by M. L. Blumenthal in The Saturday Evening Post. The fifth part of A Damsel in Distress was published in the same issue. All the stories were reprinted in The Golf Omnibus, a collection of Wodehouse's golf stories published in 1973. "The Salvation of George Mackintosh" was reprinted in P. G. Wodehouse (Methuen's Library of Humour), published in 1934. That story and "The Clicking of Cuthbert" were included in the 1939 collection Week End Wodehouse (UK edition). "The Clicking of Cuthbert", "The Heel of Achilles", and "The Coming of Gowf" were featured in the 1960 collection The Most of P. G. Wodehouse. "The Clicking of Cuthbert" was included in Vintage Wodehouse, published in 1978. The 1983 collection Fore!, subtitled The Best of Wodehouse on Golf, was edited by D. R. Bensen and included "A Mixed Threesome", "The Salvation of George Mackintosh", "The Long Hole", "The Heel of Achilles", and "The Coming of Gowf". The 1983 Wodehouse collection Short Stories, published by the Folio Society, included "The Clicking of Cuthbert" and "The Coming of Gowf". The 1964 anthology Par for the Course: A Golfer's Anthology, edited by Robert Cromie, included "Ordeal by Golf". "The Clicking of Cuthbert" was printed in the 1954 anthology The Complete Golfer (edited by Herbert Warren Wind), the 1958 anthology Great Stories from the World of Sport (edited by Peter Schwed and Herbert Warren Wind), the 1965 anthology Read with Me (edited by Thomas B. Costain), and the 1966 anthology Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction. "The Clicking of Cuthbert" was published as a short book by Redpath Press in 1986 with illustrations by Étienne Delessert.

Three stories in the collection—"The Clicking of Cuthbert," "Ordeal by Golf," and "The Long Hole"—were filmed in 1924 as part of a series of six films of Wodehouse golf stories, titled The Clicking of Cuthbert. Peter Haddon played Cuthbert. A radio series titled The Oldest Member was adapted from some of Wodehouse's golf stories. Episodes included "The Clicking of Cuthbert", "A Woman is Only a Woman", "A Mixed Threesome", "Sundered Hearts", "The Salvation of George Mackintosh", "Ordeal by Golf", "The Long Hole", and "The Rough Stuff". The series aired between 1994 and 1999. The 2018 play Love on the Links was adapted from multiple golf stories by Wodehouse.