Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is a favourite with the accomplished barmaid Miss Postlethwaite Mr Mulliner the narrator ofMeet Mr Mulliner returns for another series of stories about his extraordinary relations including Lancelot Adrian Cyril Sacheverell Eustace Egbert and Augustine Mulliner. In a text teeming with tipsy bishops angry baronets lady novelists and haughty dowagers the Mulliner boys always manage to come out on top. About the Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known asPlum') wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge Psmith the elegant socialist the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham better known as Uncle Fred and those related by Mr Mulliner the charming raconteur of The Angler's Rest and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize forhaving made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975 aged ninety-three he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards on St Valentine's Day. Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is... See more
Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is a favourite with the accomplished barmaid Miss Postlethwaite Mr Mulliner the narrator ofMeet Mr Mulliner returns for another series of stories about his extraordinary relations including Lancelot Adrian Cyril Sacheverell Eustace Egbert and Augustine Mulliner. In a text teeming with tipsy bishops angry baronets lady novelists and haughty dowagers the Mulliner boys always manage to come out on top. About the Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known asPlum') wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge Psmith the elegant socialist the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham better known as Uncle Fred and those related by Mr Mulliner the charming raconteur of The Angler's Rest and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize forhaving made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975 aged ninety-three he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards on St Valentine's Day. Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is a favourite with the accomplished barmaid, Miss Postlethwaite, Mr Mulliner, the narrator of Meet Mr Mulliner, returns for another series of stories about his extraordinary relations, including Lancelot, Adrian, Cyril, Sacheverell, Eustace, Egbert and Augustine Mulliner. In a text teeming with tipsy bishops, angry baronets, lady novelists and haughty dowagers, the Mulliner boys always manage to come out on top.
