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Meet Mr Mulliner

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By P. G. Wodehouse
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A collection of linked comic short stories presented by a genial raconteur who sits in a village inn and recounts the odd adventures of his relatives and acquaintances. Each episode offers a compact, lightly plotted vignette of romantic mishaps, social absurdities, and pratfall humor, knitted together by a chatty, conversational framing voice. The pieces favor witty wordplay, ironic reversals, and whimsical character sketches over deep drama, delivering brisk, farcical situations and barroom commentary that highlight the quirks of small‑town life and the storyteller’s delight in exaggeration.

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Title: Meet Mr Mulliner

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Release date: March 6, 2023 [eBook #70222]
Most recently updated: December 2, 2023

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Penguin Books, 1927

Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEET MR MULLINER ***

Meet Mr Mulliner

P. G. WODEHOUSE

PENGUIN BOOKS

Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ
(Publishing and Editorial)

and Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
(Distribution and Warehouse)

Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario,
Canada L3R 1B4

Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand

First published by Herbert Jenkins 1927
Published in Penguin Books 1962
Reprinted 1967, 1975, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988

Copyright 1927 by P. G. Wodehouse
All rights reserved

Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading
Set in Monotype Garamond

Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

TO THE
EARL OF OXFORD AND
ASQUITH

CONTENTS

1.THE TRUTH ABOUT GEORGE
2.A SLICE OF LIFE
3.MULLINER'S BUCK-U-UPPO
4.THE BISHOP'S MOVE
5.CAME THE DAWN
6.THE STORY OF WILLIAM
7.PORTRAIT OF A DISCIPLINARIAN
8.THE ROMANCE OF A BULB-SQUEEZER
9.HONEYSUCKLE COTTAGE