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The Collected Stories of Rumpole

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141198293

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 447g

  • 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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141198293

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 447g

  • RRP: £14.99

Reviews

  • I thank Heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole

    Clive James

  • Rumpole is simply one of the great fictional characters of modern English literature

    Marcel Berlin, Sunday Times

  • The best mock heroic fatty since Falstaff

    Alan Coren

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About the Author

John Mortimer

Sir John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister. The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980, and Mortimer went on to publish a dozen collections of Rumpole stories as well as a handful of novels, culminating in 2007 in RUMPOLE MISBEHAVES. He was knighted in 1998 for his services to the arts and died in January 2009.

John Mortimer

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