Meet Mr Mulliner

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A Mulliner collectionnnIn 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. And there’s his cousin James, the detective-story writer, who has inherited a cottage more haunted than anything in his own imagination. And stuttering George the crossword whizz. And Isadore Zinzinheimer, head of the Bigger, Better & Brighter Motion Picture Company. Tall tales all – but among Wodehouse’s best.

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The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in the New Year’s Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.Table of ContentsIt’s dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him,For as long as I’m immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it’s possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day,Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already,The incomparable and timeless genius – perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!,Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists,P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection,A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting,P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit,To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language,Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny,I’ve recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it’s like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music,Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee’s Knees. And then some,I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language,Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work,To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius – no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment,Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt – or a sense of humour!,The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon,Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny,The funniest writer ever to put words to paper,The greatest comic writer ever,P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century,Sublime comic genius