Meet Mr Mulliner

First U.S. edition

Meet Mr. Mulliner is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United Kingdom on 27 September 1927 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on 2 March 1928 by Doubleday, Doran.^[1] It introduces the irrepressible pub raconteur Mr. Mulliner, who narrates all nine of the book's stories. The last story, "Honeysuckle Cottage", was not originally a Mr. Mulliner story; it was given a Mulliner frame for the book, and is the only one of the stories which is not explicitly narrated from the bar-parlour of the Anglers' Rest public house.

Contents

The original story titles and publication dates were as follows:

• "The Truth about George"
  • U.K.: Strand, July 1926
  • U.S.: Liberty, 3 July 1926
• "A Slice of Life"
  • U.K.: Strand, August 1926
  • U.S.: Liberty, 7 August 1926
• "Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo"
  • U.K.: Strand, November 1926
  • U.S.: Liberty, 4 September 1926
• "The Bishop's Move"
  • U.K.: Strand, September 1927
  • U.S.: Liberty, 20 August 1927
• "Came the Dawn"
  • U.K.: Strand, July 1927
  • U.S.: Liberty, 11 June 1927
• "The Story of William"
  • U.K.: Strand, May 1927
  • U.S.: Liberty, 9 April 1927 (as "It Was Only a Fire")
• "Portrait of a Disciplinarian"
  • U.K.: Strand, October 1927
  • U.S.: Liberty, 24 September 1927
• "The Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer"
  • U.K.: Strand, March 1927
  • U.S.: Liberty, 12 March 1927
• "Honeysuckle Cottage"
  • U.K.: Strand, February 1925
  • U.S.: Saturday Evening Post, 24 January 1925

See also

• Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1929) and Mulliner Nights (1933) - Two other collections of Mulliner stories
• Complete list of Wodehouse's Mr. Mulliner stories

References and sources

References

Sources

• "Meet Mr. Mulliner". The Russian Wodehouse Society. Retrieved July 4, 2005. 

External links

• Meet Mr. Mulliner on the Internet Archive