Collected Stories Of Rumpole,the - Penguin Modern Classics K

Autor: MORTIMER,John

Editorial: PENGUIN BOOKS Ltd.

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9780141198293

Reseña:  Horace Rumpole - witty eloquent dishevelled and cynical - is one of fictions 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.