Forever Rumpole - Mortimer, John

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Auteur(s) : Mortimer, John

Editeur : Penguin

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2012

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 530.0

Expédition : 362

Dimensions : 15.0 x 19.8 x 31.0

ISBN : 0670919373

Résumé :

John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. He was knighted for his services to the arts in 1998. He died in January 2009.

Ann Mallalieu was the first female President of the Cambridge Union. She has practised at the Criminal Bar since 1970 and appeared frequently with John Mortimer. A Labour life peer, she was elected Peer of the Year by parliamentarians in 2004.

Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:
Forever Rumpole - a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John Mortimer Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit his literary allusions his disdain for personal ambition and his lack of pomposity he has in the words of the Daily Telegraph 'ascended to the pantheon of literary immortals'. Forever Rumpole contains seven stories originally chosen by the author himself as his favourites together with a further seven from the later period and the opening chapters of a Rumpole novel that Sir John was working on when he died in 2009. The book also includes a fascinating introduction by Ann Mallalieu fellow lawyer and for many years Sir John's colleague in practice. 'Rumpole like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes is immortal' P. D James Mail on Sunday 'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Observer Sir John Mortimer was a barrister playwright and novelist. His fictional trilogy about the inexorable rise of an ambitious Tory MP in the Thatcher years (Paradise Postponed Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets) has recently been republished in Penguin Classics together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole...