Best of Rumpole: Rumpole And the Younger Generation;Rumpole a Nd the Showfolk;Rumpole And the Tap End; Rumpole And the Bubble Reputation; ... the Children of the Devil;Rumpole On Trial - Hardcover

Mortimer, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670849782 ISBN 13: 9780670849789

Publisher: Viking, 1993

Synopsis

Seven of Mortimer's favorite stories about Horace Rumpole, the comic and courageous London barrister, are brought together in this delightful edition. The corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is featured on the popular PBS-TV series Rumpole of the Bailey.

About this title

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

Synopsis:

The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" and "Rumpole and the Showfolk" are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670849782
• ISBN 13: 9780670849789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288