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,...