The Collected Stories of Rumpole

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he 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. Zusammenfassung Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he 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.

Product details

• Authors: John Mortimer, Sir John Mortimer
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.04.2013
• EAN: 9780141198293
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119829-3
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; HUMOR / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Humour, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary