Mr. Mulliner Speaking

A raconteur in a bucolic English pub tells tall tales in this fiction collection from "arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever" (The New York Times).

A Scotch in hand, Mr. Mulliner gathers a crowd around him at Angler's Rest tavern-each story the old fisherman tells more amazing than the last-and all of them about members of his own sprawling family. There's the tale of the nephew who gave up smoking to win a woman's hand, the woman who nearly came between two childhood friends, ...