Isbn: 9780312330828 - john mortimer: the secret lives of rumpole's creator (16 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good.

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Hardback. Condición: Very Good.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good - Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good - Fine. First Edition. A biography of the creator of Rumpole. Mild wear at the edges. A very good or better copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Good book. Some wear to DJ edges and corners. Light shelf wear on DJ. Black line on top outer page edges.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st U S Edition. small tear on dust jacket upper edge.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First US Edition. 1/8 inch closed tear at top of back d j cover. 336 pages. In Britain every generation produces a national treasure, a lovable figure so English that he could not possibly be of any other nationality, and Sir John Mortimer is just such a figure. Mortimer has delighted millions all over the world withseven television series about the gloriously larger-than-life fictional barrister Horace Rumpole --- Rumpole of the Bailey --- as well as novels, autobiographies, stage plays, film scripts, short stories, television and radio plays, newspaper articles, and even an opera and a ballet. Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Alec Guinness appeared in his plays, and among his greatest theatrical triumphs is his stage and television play A Voyage Round My Father. He won a British Book Awards trophy for Lifetime Achievement in 2005. Mortimeractually practiced as a barrister for thirty-six years, defending husbands, wives, pornographers, and murderers in court and starring as the real-life "Devil's Advocate" in several legendary obscenity and blasphemy cases in the 1970s, quickly becoming a liberal hero. Yet despitehuge success, fame, and knighthood there lurks beneath that genial "champagne socialist" mask an unusually complex man who has been plagued by depression, doubt, insecurity, and an irresistible urge to commit adultery. Biographer Graham Lord, whose discovery that Mortimer had a secret son by the British actress Wendy Craig forced Sir John to admit it publicly in 2004, has interviewed scores of Mortmer's family, friends, mistresses, and enemies to write a frank and vital biography that reveals the startling reality behind the beloved public figure.…

hardback. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. x, 326 p. ; 24 cm.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Remainder mark present on bottom page edges.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Bargain book.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 326 pages. 10.00x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Very Good. Cover is in very good condition. There is a small mark where a sticker has been removed on first blank page.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.