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The Collected Stories of Rumpole (Penguin Modern Classics) Book

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. This title comes with a new introduction by Sam Leith former literary editor of the "Daily Telegraph" and contributor to the "Evening Standard" "Guardian" and "Spectator".Read More

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    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. This title comes with a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.

  • 014119829X
  • 9780141198293
  • John Mortimer
  • 4 April 2013
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 656
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