Аннотация: 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.

Автор/составитель	Mortimer John
Серия	Penguin Modern Classics
Год выпуска	2012
ISBN	9780141198293
Производитель	Penguin
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	637
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	197x130x28 мм
Цвет	Красный
Вес	454
Язык	английский