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 .

Penguin Classics

4. april 2013

4. april 2013

PAPERBACK

656

9780141198293

29 mm

134 mm

199 mm