The Collected Stories of Rumpole
Publication details: United Kingdom; Penguin Books Ltd; 2013Description: 609 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780141198293
- 823.91
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Adult Fiction | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC002742 | |||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Adult Fiction | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | For Sale | PKLC002974 |
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".
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