Mulliner Nights

p.g. wodehouse

Mr. Mulliner is the genial Scheherazade of the Anglers’ Rest, a bucolic English pub. Each evening, sipping his Scotch and lemon, Mr. Mulliner tells of an adventure that once befell a nephew, a cousin’s son, or some other un-stuffy younger relative. Mr. Mulliner’s narratives showcase Wodehouse’s particular genius for fetching whimsy and eccenric shenanigans.

Genres fictionhumorshort storiesclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literature20th centuryliteratureclassic literature

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 17,1933

Series

Mr. Mulliner

This edition

Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Published: April 12, 2005 by Vintage
ISBN: 9781400079612
ASIN: 1400079616
Language: English

Characters More characters

Alexander Charles Prosser

Alexander Charles "Oofy" Prosser, the Drones stout and pimpled tame millionaire in The Knightly Quest of Mervyn, The Luck of the Stiffhams, Alls Well with Bingo, Sonny Boy, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Word in Season, Freddie, Oofy, and t...
Mr. Mulliner

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Miss Postlethwaite

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Lord Knubble Of Knopp

Percy, Lord Knubble of Knopp, Grosvernor Square, luncheon host of Cedric Mulliner in The Story of Cedric, guest of Sir Sutton Hartley-Wesping in The Smile That Wins, godfather of Eustace Mulliner in Open House, and tennis partner and suitor of Amanda Biff...
Wilfred Mulliner

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Augustine Mulliner

Augustine Mulliner, nephew of the Anglers Rest raconteur, at one time a pale young curate, assistant to the vicar at Lower Brisket-in-the-midden. Flaxen hair, weak blue eyes, with the general demeanor of a saintly but timid codfish. Transformed by M...

About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).