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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141198293Number of pages: 656Weight: 447 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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I thank Heaven for small mercies. The first of these is RumpoleRumpole is simply one of the great fictional characters of modern English literatureThe best mock heroic fatty since Falstaff
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