The collected stories of Rumpole
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The collected stories of Rumpole
（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2012
- : pbk
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Contents of Works
- Rumpole and the younger generation
- Rumpole and the heavy brigade
- Rumpole and the man of god
- Rumpole and the showfolk
- Rumpole and the expert witness
- Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas
- Rumpole and the boat people
- Rumpole and the genuine article
- Rumpole and the last resort
- Rumpole and the blind tasting
- Rumpole and the judge's elbow
- Rumpole's last case
- Rumpole and the tap end
- Rumpole and the bubble reputation
- Rumpole and Portia
- Rumpole à la carte
- Rumpole on trial
- Rumpole and the model prisoner
- Rumpole and the old familiar faces
- Rumpole and the Primrose Path
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Description
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.
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