Farewell to Legs Farewell to Legs "Farewell to Legs" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the July 14, 1935 edition of "This Week", and in the United Kingdom in the May 1936 issue of the "Strand". It was included in the UK collection "Lord Emsworth and Others", (1937), and in the U.S. edition of "Young Men in Spats" (1936). It is a golf story, narrated by the Oldest Member. The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel, "A Farewell to Arms". The betrothal of Evangeline Brackett to Angus McTavish is built,
The Farewell Symphony The Farewell Symphony The Farewell Symphony is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. It is the third of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988). It depicts the later adulthood of its protagonist and documents his experience of homosexuality from the 1960s to the 1990s. The title alludes to the "Farewell" Symphony by Joseph Haydn. Writing in "The Wall Street Journal", the journalist James Wolcott suggested that the book "might have been more honestly titled "Hilly Buttocks I Have Known,"" wherein the author "invites us to join