About this title: Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C. to adopt a more judicial attitude, returned in the tender gloaming of each evening - via Pommeroy's and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street - to she who must be obeyed? The answer is Horace Rumpole whose legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the 'Oxford Book of English Verse' and less-than-salubrious hat are celebrated here in this first omnibus edition which includes "Rumpole of the Bailey", "The Trials of Rumpole" and "Rumpole's Return".
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1984-01-03
ISBN-13:9780140067682ISBN:014006768X
Description: Very Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. P/O sticker (name) is on FFEP. Has some light edge and corner wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140067682ISBN:014006768X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 556 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140067682ISBN:014006768X
Description: Fine. Aside from a bump on the top of the spine and some minimal stress marks, this book is in great overall condition. It appears never to have been read. It's square and solidly bound and has a clean cover--you'll weep for joy when this book arrives! ! ! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 556 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very Good read more
"I love Rumpole, I might go straight and femme for him. What is it about him, the sly wit,the Wordsworth quotes or his interest and observations of the quirks of mankind?"
"The basis for the old BBC/PBS series "Rumpole of the Bailey." Rumpole is an eccentric English barrister (lawyer, with the wife famously referred to as "She Who Must be Obeyed." Mildly amusing series of "cases", especially enjoyable for Anglophiles."
"After reading Mortimer's memoirs and his Titmuss books, I was surprised that I didn't like Rumpole more. I found the stories formulaic and repetitive. Perhaps that always happens when there is a recurring character; the author feels compelled to reintroduce the main quirks of the character over and over. Reading the stories one after another, it was irksome. Agatha Christie did that with Poirot and Marple, but the stories were longer, so it didn't seem so tedious. Anyway, the stories were amusing, but I gave up about 2/3 of the way through the omnibus. I've continued to read Mortimer's other fiction and find it better."
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