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From a good dose of Buck-U-Up to churchmen painting a statue pink to a hilarious drunk to a wonderful haunted house story this is a fine collection of Wodehouse short fiction. For any other comedic writer the Mr. Mulliner short stories would be the highlight of a career, for PG Wodehouse they are a pleasant change of pace from Jeeves & Wooster and Blandings.
This is the first collection of short stories about the remarkable doings of a certain Mr. Mulliner's many relations. The Mulliner stories are some of my favorite Wodehouse stories. Some of the great characters are Augustine Mulliner, a meek, weak cleric who takes a tonic called "Buck-U-Uppo" and becomes jovial and persuasive. Lancelot Mulliner is a young romantic poet whose poem for his uncle's pickle factory is forcefully rejected. Frederick Mulliner, after getting his heart broken, has to vis
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