World of Mr Mulliner

by P G Wodehouse

Paperback, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Series

Mr. Mulliner (Omnibus of short stories)

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Penguin Books (1999), Paperback, 624 pages

Description

Mr Mulliner, raconteur par excellenceof the Anglers' Rest, has some amazing stories to relate. Take, for example, young Lancelot. He is a bohemian - or was, until he had to look after his saintly uncle's cat Webster, and was startlingly transformed. Then there is Mulliner's brother Wilfred, a whizzo at chemistry, whose 'Magic Marvels' medicine gets him in and out of a dreadful scrape. Mervyn, not one of the brighter members of the family, has a scrap over some strawberries. Not to mention Augustine the resourceful curate, Ignatius the portrait-painter, Adrian the detective and many more besides, whose wonderful and intriguing exploits are revealed in this witty omnibus. 'Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny.' Arabella Weir… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member owenre
This isn't a book to read all at once since the stories pile on and might get stale. Read this book in sips and be overjoyed in Wodehouse at his best. I love the people being identified by their drink. I love the combinations of the impatience of Mr. Mulliner with anyone who thinks he has held the
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 floor for too long and his outlandish and delightfully convoluted stories. And the product names. Actually, all the names. It is Wodehouse, what can I say? You love him immoderately or you don't.
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LibraryThing member stuart10er
42 stories covering something like 4 decades of stories. The format is almost always the same. He is an older guy at a pub where he is a regular. Someone tells a story and he always says "that reminds me of my cousin Fred and the time he....". Some of the stories are ok - but certainly not his best
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 work. He even says in the introduction that he basically contrived it as a foil for Jeeves and Wooster because he couldn't write every story about them.
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Subjects

Humorous stories, English
Mulliner family (Fictitious characters) Fiction

Original publication date

1927 (Meet Mr Mulliner: 9 stories published 1925-1927)
1929 (Mr Mulliner Speaking: 9 stories published 1924-1929)
1933 (Mulliner Nights: 9 stories published c. 1930-1932)
1999 (Omnibus)

Physical description

624 p.; 7.4 inches

ISBN

0140281703 / 9780140281705

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