The Collected Stories of Rumpole Paperback / softback
by John Mortimer
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law.
In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about.
With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/04/2013
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- ISBN:9780141198293
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:04/04/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141198293
