The Truth About George

The Truth About George

"The Truth about George" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1926 in "Strand Magazine", and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. [ [http://wodehouse.ru/39.htm Meet Mr. Mulliner ] ] It also appears in the collection "Meet Mr. Mulliner".

=Plot Overview=George Mulliner, a nephew of Mr. Mulliner, was cursed with a terrible stammer but was not terribly concerned about it until he fell in love with Susan Blake, the daughter of the vicar of East Wobsley, the Worcestershire village in which they lived. Determined to get rid of the stammer, he visits a specialist in London who advises him to go and speak to three perfect strangers each day as a confidence building measure. George decides to do this immediately on the train back to London. Unfortunately, the first person he meets also stammers and to stammer back at this man 'would obviously be madness'. The second person he meets turns out to be a lunatic runaway from the local asylum who thinks he is the Emperor of Abyssinia and wishes to perform a human sacrifice with George playing the lucky lamb. George manages to escape and takes refuge under the seat of a train. A woman enters the same compartment and when George emerges from under the bench and tries to speak to her, she assumes that George must be the escaped lunatic. When George, unable to speak, decides to sing instead she faints. When a thermos falls and explodes as the train passes over some points, she leaps up and pulls the emergency cord bringing the train to a halt. When a host of rustics appear, George decides to remove himself and does so at a high speed followed by twenty-seven rustics headed by a bearded man with a pitchfork.

Late that night, a bedraggled George appears at the vicarage and presents himself to Susan Blake. Cured of his stammer, he proposes and she accepts. The mob arrives and George removes himself again at top speed but his stammer is cured for ever.

=Adaptations=The Truth about George appeared in the BBC TV series Wodehouse Playhouse and was first broadcast on 23 April 1975 starring John Alderton as George Mulliner and Pauline Collins as Susan Blake. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072586/episodes "Wodehouse Playhouse" (1975) - Episode list ] ] That episode also contained an introduction by the author, P. G. Wodehouse. [ [http://wodehouse.ru/wplhs.htm Wodehouse Playhouse ] ] It also appeared as a BBC Radio play in 2004 starring Richard Griffiths as George Mulliner. [ [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/nchaillet.html Ned Chaillet BBC Radio Dramas, Radio Plays - DIVERSITY WEBSITE ] ]

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