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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 04/04/2013
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ISBN: 9780141198293
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Length: 656 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm
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Weight: 447g
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RRP: £14.99
The Collected Stories of Rumpole
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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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 04/04/2013
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ISBN: 9780141198293
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Length: 656 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm
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Weight: 447g
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RRP: £14.99
Reviews
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I thank Heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole
Sunday Times
