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John Mortimer (1923–2009)

Autor(a) de The First Rumpole Omnibus

163+ Works 14,681 Membros 269 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Includes the name: John Clifford Mortimer

Também inclui: John Mortimer (1)

Obras por John Mortimer

The First Rumpole Omnibus (1983) 905 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) 743 exemplares
Paradise Postponed (1985) 684 exemplares
Summer's Lease (1988) 564 exemplares
The Second Rumpole Omnibus (1987) 533 exemplares
Rumpole Rests His Case (2001) 533 exemplares
Rumpole and the Primrose Path (2002) 519 exemplares
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (2006) 501 exemplares
Rumpole à la Carte (1990) 471 exemplares
Rumpole on Trial (1992) 469 exemplares
Trials of Rumpole (1979) 441 exemplares
Rumpole Misbehaves (2007) 429 exemplares
Rumpole for the Defence (1982) 420 exemplares
Rumpole and the Golden Thread (1983) 414 exemplares
Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) 400 exemplares
Titmuss Regained (1990) 373 exemplares
Rumpole's Return (1980) 358 exemplares
Rumpole and the Angel of Death (1996) 352 exemplares
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles (1988) 326 exemplares
Rumpole's Last Case (1987) 314 exemplares
Rumpole at Christmas (2009) 278 exemplares
The Third Rumpole Omnibus (1997) 272 exemplares
Quite Honestly (2005) 241 exemplares
Dunster (1992) 217 exemplares
Rumpole (1994) 205 exemplares
The Summer of a Dormouse (2000) 198 exemplares
Felix in the Underworld (1997) 195 exemplares
The Sound of Trumpets (1600) 191 exemplares
Where There's a Will (2003) 146 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Villains (1992) — Editor — 136 exemplares
Charade (1986) 136 exemplares
In Character (1983) 120 exemplares
The Narrowing Stream (1988) 114 exemplares
Tea with Mussolini [1999 film] (1999) — Screenwriter — 106 exemplares
Like Men Betrayed (1953) 80 exemplares
Character Parts (1600) 76 exemplares
The Scales of Justice (2005) 66 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey, The Complete Series [videorecording] (2004) — Creator; Writer — 54 exemplares
The Rapstone Chronicles (1991) 47 exemplares
Under the Hammer (1994) 45 exemplares
Merry Murder (1994) 40 exemplares
Will Shakespeare (1977) 38 exemplares
In Love and War [2001 TV movie] (2001) — Screenwriter — 32 exemplares
A Voyage Round My Father: A Play (1971) 31 exemplares
Murder Most Merry (2002) 30 exemplares
Great Law and Order Stories (1990) — Editor — 28 exemplares
Collected Stories of Rumpole (2012) 19 exemplares
In Other Words (2008) 19 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey (1980) 16 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey: Set 3 (Seasons 5-7) (2005) — Autor; Writer — 12 exemplares
The Dock Brief (1958) 9 exemplares
Summer's Lease [video] (2005) 8 exemplares
Edwin and Other Plays (1984) 7 exemplares
Lunch hour : and other plays (1960) 7 exemplares
The Judge (1967) 6 exemplares
Collaborators (1973) 6 exemplares
Rumpole at the Bar (1989) 5 exemplares
Rumpole of Bailey: The Complete First Season (1991) — Writer — 5 exemplares
Lunch Hour: A Play in One Act (1960) 5 exemplares
Come As You Are!: Four Plays (1971) 4 exemplares
What Shall We Tell Caroline? (1958) 4 exemplares
With Love and Lizards (1957) 4 exemplares
Naked Justice (2002) 3 exemplares
Two stars for comfort (1962) 3 exemplares
Knightsbridge: A Play (1973) 3 exemplares
Hock and soda water (2001) 2 exemplares
Rumpole : affaires classées (1990) 2 exemplares
One to Another (Acting Edition) (1960) 2 exemplares
John Mortimer Plays (1989) 2 exemplares
Marble Arch 1 exemplar
RUMPOLE Folio Society (1994) 1 exemplar
Rumming Park (1948) 1 exemplar
The fear of heaven : a play (1978) 1 exemplar
Three Winters (1956) 1 exemplar
Rumpole, affaires à suivre (1991) 1 exemplar
BBC Radio Presents: Rumpole (1995) 1 exemplar
Rumpole's Return [TV Series Episode] — Writer — 1 exemplar
Answer Yes or No (1950) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Claudius the God (1934) — Introdução, algumas edições4,200 exemplares
Orley Farm (1861) — Introdução, algumas edições695 exemplares
The Best of Wodehouse (1938) — Introdução, algumas edições348 exemplares
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuidor — 291 exemplares
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) — Contribuidor — 289 exemplares
Famous Trials (1984) — Introdução — 190 exemplares
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
A Flea in Her Ear (1907) — Tradutor, algumas edições153 exemplares
Brideshead Revisited [1981 TV miniseries] (1981) — Screenwriter — 131 exemplares
The Best British Mysteries 2005 (2005) — Contribuidor — 127 exemplares
A New Omnibus of Crime (1771) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
The Best British Mysteries 2006 (2005) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Notable Historical Trials, Volumes I-IV (1999) — Introdução — 54 exemplares
Murder at Christmas (2019) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Sittings, 1979-1983 (1982) — Introdução — 39 exemplares
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas (1999) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Murder in Midwinter (2020) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Murder under the Mistletoe and Other Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Bunny Lake is Missing [1965 film] (1965) — Writer — 31 exemplares
Die Fledermaus [libretto] (1964) — Tradutor, algumas edições29 exemplares
Crème de la Crime (2000) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey: Seasons One and Two (2004) — Writer — 20 exemplares
Contemporary one-act plays (1976) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Trial and Error [1962 film] — Play — 16 exemplares
A Feast of Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Murder on Trial (1994) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
The World of Law, Volume I : The Law in Literature (1960) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Don Quixote [2000 TV movie] (2000) — Screenwriter — 10 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey: Seasons 3 & 4 (1991) — Writer — 10 exemplares
Will Shakespeare [1978 TV mini-series] (2003) — Screenwriter — 9 exemplares
Laurie Lee: A Many-coated Man (1998) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Ebony Tower [1984 TV film] — adaptor — 4 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey: The Complete Third Season (1991) — Writer — 3 exemplares
A Christmas Anthology (2011) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Rumpole and the Man of God [TV Series Episode] (2009) — Writer — 2 exemplares
Rumpole of the Bailey, Volume 2 [TV Series] (1997) — Writer — 2 exemplares
Rumpole at Sea [TV Series Episode] — Writer — 2 exemplares
Paradise Postponed: The Complete Series — Screenwriter — 2 exemplares
Edwin [1984 TV movie] (2003) — Screenwriter — 1 exemplar
Rumpole and Portia [TV Series Episode] — Writer — 1 exemplar
Rumpole for the Prosecution [TV Series Episode] (1991) — Writer — 1 exemplar
Rumpole of the Bailey Vol 6 [VHS] (1998) — Writer — 1 exemplar
The Count of Monte Cristo. Introduced by John Mortimer. Illustrated by Roman Pisareo. (1999) — Introdução, algumas edições1 exemplar

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This is my sixth Rumpole book and I would have to say the least satisfying to date, notwithstanding the intriguing addition of a bit of Hilda point of view. The resolution felt contrived and the book's raison d'etre seemed nothing more than the author's wanting to gripe about war on terrorism hysteria.
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clong | 17 outras críticas | Mar 13, 2024 |
John Mortimer's father gave him the same advice I once gave my granddaughter. If you want to become a writer, first seek another career. This will pay the bills while you struggle as a writer, and it will also give you something to write about. It will put you in daily contact with real people in real-life situations.

Mortimer took his father's advice and became a successful barrister, as well as a successful author, most notably of the Horace Rumpole stories. He tells all about it in “Where There's a Will,” his 2003 book of essays that can also pass as a memoir.

Much of this book is about his experiences practicing law and the amazing people and situations he encountered in this profession. There is much here, too, about the writing profession. Yet most of these essays are simply about the art of living. They have titles like "Getting Drunk," "Listening," "Lying," "Living with Children," "Male Clothing," "Giving Money to Beggars," "Eating Out," and "Looking after Your Health." They are all short and, in most cases, amusing. And sometimes full of practical advice.

He suggests, for example, to avoid eating at restaurants with menus full of page after page of entrees. Those restaurants with few options, he says, probably know how to prepare those meals very well.

He says he learned to listen to others because that is part of a lawyer's job, and he highly recommends the practice. Most people have fascinating stories to tell, if only we can stop talking long enough to listen to them.

Mortimer says many things worth quoting:

"One of the miracles of life is that few people pass through it without finding someone to love them."

"Murder has this in common with Christmas, most of it goes on in the family circle."

"The trouble with double-beds is that people tend to go to sleep in them."

Mortimer's Rumpole stories make wonderful reading, and this is no less true of this short book of short essays.
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hardlyhardy | 4 outras críticas | Feb 26, 2024 |
Rumpole is a comfort read for me so I was delighted when this book I had forgotten about resurfaced in the festive season of 2023. I'm sure I couldn't live with Rumpole but, on the other hand, I'd find it hard to put up with "She Who Must Be Obeyed" so I guess they are perfect for one another.

Rumpole is defending another of the Timson clan when he notices a winsome young woman gazing at him from the visitors' gallery. Tiffany Timson has never needed Rumpole's assistance before unlike most of her relatives but she has come to ask him to take on the case of her husband, Dr. Mahmood Khan. He was taken away one morning from their home by plain clothes police who mentioned as they were leaving that he was being arrested under the Terrorism Act. Dr. Khan had been born in Pakistan but came to England many years ago. He swears he has had no contact with terrorists and, in fact, loves England and the Queen passionately. England has abrogated a number of cornerstones of the common law system in recent years and Rumpole finds that people charged under the Terrorism Act don't have any right to know what they are accused of. It's rather difficult to mount a defence when the evidence of the supposed crime is withheld. Rumpole has an ace up his sleeve though provided to him by an old client and he uses it to good effect. Despite the fact that the other members of his chambers and his wife are convinced his client is guilty (why else would the police have arrested him?), Rumpole manages to get to the bottom of the matter and gets his client released and absolved of all guilt.

She Who Must Be Obeyed (aka Hilda Rumpole) is now writing her memoirs unbeknownst to Rumpole. She is also being courted by a judge and is seriously wondering if she might do better with him than with Rumpole. Rumpole is oblivious to this romance but, fortunately, Hilda comes to her senses. Now, Rumpole just has to worry about what she might put in those memoirs.
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Leo McKern Narrator, Actor, Narrator, , Reader
John Mortimer Screenwriter, Writer, Author
Robert Hardy Narrator
Herbert Wise Director
Roger Bamford Director
Martyn Friend Director
Julian Amyes Director
John Gorrie Director
Arthur Conan Doyle Contributor
Brian Farnham Director
Georges Simenon Contributor
Derek Bennett Director
Mike Vardy Director
Jim Goddard Director
Graham Evans Director
Stuart Burge Director
Tony Smith Director
Peter Hammond Director
Eric Newby Author
Richard Stoneman Adaptor, Dramatist
Paul Cox Illustrator
Charles Dickens Contributor
Raymond Chandler Contributor
Patricia Highsmith Contributor
Wilkie Collins Contributor
Timothy West Narrator, Reader
James M. Cain Contributor
Angela Carter Contributor
John Milton Contributor
Ian Fleming Contributor
Bram Stoker Contributor
Cicero Contributor
Geoffrey Chaucer Contributor
Anthony Trollope Contributor
Jorge Luis Borges Contributor
Dick Francis Contributor
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Contributor
Graham Greene Contributor
Joseph Conrad Contributor
Thomas Hardy Contributor
P. G. Wodehouse Contributor
Homer Contributor
Mark Twain Contributor
Eric Ambler Contributor
Molière Contributor
Damon Runyon Contributor
E. W. Hornung Contributor
Benedict Cumberbatch Narrator, Reader
Cher Actor
Alessio Vlad Composer
Jasmine Hyde Reader, Narrator
Irene Shubik Producer
Ann Cleeves Contributor
H. R. F. Keating Contributor
Edgar Allan Poe Contributor
P. D. James Contributor
Cathy Sara Narrator, Reader
Ruth Rendell Contributor
Arnold Bennett Contributor
Baroness Orczy Contributor
G.K. Chesterton Contributor
Sam Leith Foreword
Marilyn Imrie Director
Maurice Denham Narrator, Actor
Bill Wallis Narrator
Patrick Tull Narrator, Narrator
Remo Ceserani Introduction
Christopher Green Cover artist
Rosemary Herbert Author photograph
Asya Sherman Cover designer
Maria Delogu Translator

Estatísticas

Obras
163
Also by
107
Membros
14,681
Popularidade
#1,569
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
269
ISBN
745
Línguas
11
Marcado como favorito
1

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