num_pages: 170
description: A Mulliner collectionIn the Angler's Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs. Mr Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behaviour of his far-flung family: in particular there's Wilfred, inventor of Raven Gypsy face-cream and Snow of the Mountain Lotion, who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo, a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance. Its explosive effects on a shy young curate and then the higher clergy is gravely revealed. Then there's his cousin James, the detective-story writer, who has inherited a cottage more haunted than anything in his own imagination. And Isadore Zinzinheimer, head of the Bigger, Better &amp; Brighter Motion Picture Company. Tall tales all - but among Wodehouse's best.
language: English
title: Meet Mr. Mulliner
titlecomplete: Meet Mr. Mulliner
characters: Fotheringay, Clarence Mulliner, Horatio Biggs, Susan Blake, Angela Purdue, Trevor Entwhistle, Joseph Bodger, George Mulliner, Augustine Mulliner, Lancelot Bassington Mulliner, Meadowes, Rose Maynard, Earl of Biddlecombe, Frederick Mulliner, Percy Ffinch-Ifarrowmere, Desmond Franklyn, John San Francisco Earthquake Mulliner, Jane Brandon, Myrtle Banks, Jane Oliphant, Margerison, Bishop of Stortford, Andrew McKinnon, Hector Bloodenough, Wilfred Mulliner, William, Dr. Brady, Murgatroyd, Lord Hemel of Hampstead, Henry Carteret, Ferdinand Mulliner, Mrs. Wardle, Leila J. Pinckney, Monica Southbourne, Mr. Mulliner, Angela, Percival Mulliner, Boko Bickerton, James Rodman, Bewstridge, William Mulliner, Isadore Zinzinheimer, Stanley Brandon, Jeremiah Briggs, Jasper Ffinch-Ifarrowmere, Nurse Wilks, Slingsby Purvis, Miss Postlethwaite
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2083
series: Mr. Mulliner
publisher: Ballantine Books