num_pages: 159
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: Miss Postlethwaite, Trevor Entwhistle, Henry Carteret, Joseph Bodger, Ferdinand Mulliner, Mrs. Wardle, Nurse Wilks, Angela, Jane Oliphant, Leila J. Pinckney, Clarence Mulliner, George Mulliner, Jasper Ffinch-Ifarrowmere, Jeremiah Briggs, Murgatroyd, Isadore Zinzinheimer, Angela Purdue, Boko Bickerton, Slingsby Purvis, Monica Southbourne, James Rodman, Meadowes, Hector Bloodenough, William Mulliner, Desmond Franklyn, Susan Blake, William, John San Francisco Earthquake Mulliner, Lancelot Bassington Mulliner, Stanley Brandon, Wilfred Mulliner, Augustine Mulliner, Percy Ffinch-Ifarrowmere, Dr. Brady, Margerison, Horatio Biggs, Mr. Mulliner, Andrew McKinnon, Bishop of Stortford, Fotheringay, Jane Brandon, Earl of Biddlecombe, Bewstridge, Percival Mulliner, Rose Maynard, Frederick Mulliner, Myrtle Banks, Lord Hemel of Hampstead
genres: Audiobook, Comedy, Literary Fiction, Fiction, 20th Century, Literature, Humor, Classics, Short Stories, British Literature
ratings_count: 2085
series: Mr. Mulliner
publisher: Barrie & Jenkins