num_pages: 203
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: Lancelot Bassington Mulliner, Monica Southbourne, Jeremiah Briggs, Desmond Franklyn, John San Francisco Earthquake Mulliner, Henry Carteret, Percy Ffinch-Ifarrowmere, Angela, Leila J. Pinckney, Stanley Brandon, Jane Brandon, Wilfred Mulliner, Slingsby Purvis, Fotheringay, Clarence Mulliner, Mr. Mulliner, William, Murgatroyd, Ferdinand Mulliner, Augustine Mulliner, Earl of Biddlecombe, Rose Maynard, Hector Bloodenough, Jane Oliphant, Bewstridge, Myrtle Banks, Nurse Wilks, Susan Blake, Meadowes, Angela Purdue, Horatio Biggs, Margerison, Percival Mulliner, Lord Hemel of Hampstead, Miss Postlethwaite, Andrew McKinnon, Jasper Ffinch-Ifarrowmere, Mrs. Wardle, Frederick Mulliner, Joseph Bodger, Boko Bickerton, Isadore Zinzinheimer, Trevor Entwhistle, George Mulliner, William Mulliner, Bishop of Stortford, Dr. Brady, James Rodman
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Literature, Comedy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 2083
series: Mr. Mulliner
publisher: The Overlook Press