Meet Mr. Mulliner
Meet the family Mulliner: George, the stammering crossword specialist; Wilfred, the chemist and inventor; Augustine, the curate; Lancelot, the poet; Clarence, the society photographer; the Bishop; the Headmaster; & the penniless Earl of Biddlecombe.
Meet the family Mulliner: George, the stammering crossword specialist; Wilfred, the chemist and inventor; Augustine, the curate; Lancelot, the poet; Clarence, the society photographer; the Bishop; the Headmaster; & the penniless Earl of Biddlecombe.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781585672752 (1585672750)
Publish date: May 13th 2002
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Pages no: 316
Edition language: English
Series: Mr. Mulliner (#1)
I'd read the the other two Mr. Mulliner collections before Meet Mr. Mulliner, the aptly named first one in the series, though the order of the Mr. Mulliner books is less important since they are essentially a series of short stories. Mr. Mulliner tells these all as frame stories in his local pub, a...
Undoubtedly, this is the most hilarious collection of short stories I've ever read. Except for one ("The Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer") which I found only so-so, all the others had me in stitches. I have returned to this collection again and again, whenever I was feeling down in the dumps, and left ...