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.
| ISBN: | 9780141198293 |
| Publication date: | 4th April 2013 |
| Author: | John Mortimer, Chloe Campbell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 656 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Shorter Reads Humour |
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.
The Collected Stories of Rumpole features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads, Humour
The Collected Stories of Rumpole is available in Paperback
The Collected Stories of Rumpole was written by John Mortimer, Chloe Campbell and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Collected Stories of Rumpole has 656 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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