Mr Mulliner Speaking is a collection of nine short stories

Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

 by P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

. It was first published in the United Kingdom

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 on April 30, 1929 by Herbert Jenkins

Barrie & Jenkins

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, and in the United States

United States

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 on February 21, 1930 by Doubleday, Doran.

All stories are narrated by the inexorable Mr Mulliner

Mr Mulliner

Mr. Mulliner is a fictional character from the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. Mr. Mulliner is a loquacious pub raconteur who, no matter what the topic of conversation, can find an appropriate story about a member of his family to match it....

 about members of his prodigious family, including one who is also a member of the Drones Club

Drones Club

The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a gentlemen's club in London. Many of his Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members....

. The last three of the stories are about Bobbie Wickham

Bobbie Wickham

Roberta "Bobbie" Wickham is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Mr Mulliner stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a troublesome redheaded girl, enamoured of practical jokes which often result in general pandemonium.-Overview:...

; they were revised and given a Mr Mulliner frame for the book.

Contents

• "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald
  The Reverent Wooing of Archibald
  "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a part of the Mr Mulliner series and related to the Drones Club series. It features Archibald Mulliner, the sock collector who can mimic a hen laying an egg, and his love Aurelia Cammarleigh...
  
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  • UK: Strand
    Strand Magazine
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    , August 1928
  • US: Cosmopolitan
    Cosmopolitan (magazine)
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    , 3 July 1926
• "The Man Who Gave Up Smoking"
  • UK: Strand, March 1929
  • US: Liberty, 23 March 1929
• "The Story of Cedric"
  • UK: Strand, May 1929
  • US: Liberty, 11 May 1929
• "The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner"
  • UK: Strand, December 1928
  • US: Liberty, 24 November 1928
• "Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court"
  • UK: Strand, February 1929
  • US: Liberty, 2 February 1929
• "Those in Peril on the Tee"
  • UK: Strand, June 1927
  • US: Liberty, 21 May 1927
• "Something Squishy"
  • UK: Strand, January 1925
  • US: Saturday Evening Post
    The Saturday Evening Post
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    , 20 December 1924
• "The Awful Gladness of the Mater"
  • UK: Strand, May 1925
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, 21 March 1925
• "The Passing of Ambrose"
  • UK: Strand, July 1928
  • US: Cosmopolitan, August 1928

See also

• Meet Mr Mulliner
  Meet Mr Mulliner
  Meet Mr Mulliner is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United Kingdom on September 27, 1927 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on March 2, 1928 by Doubleday, Doran, it introduces the irrepressible pub raconteur Mr Mulliner, who narrates all nine of...
  
  (1927) and Mulliner Nights
  Mulliner Nights
  Mulliner Nights is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United Kingdom on 17 January 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on 15 February 1933 by Doubleday, Doran, it is the third collection featuring Mr Mulliner, who narrates all nine stories...
  
  (1933) - Two other collections of Mulliner stories
• "Blandings Castle and Elsewhere"-Half Blandings and half Mr Mulliner
• List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, categorised by series