In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver in fear when Pandora opens her jar...
'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame'
Der fünfzehnjährige Schüler Adrian Healey ist ein sympathischer Taugenichts, der sich am liebsten selbst in Schwierigkeiten bringt. Er mag Bücher und sexuelle Perversionen undhegteinenaufrichtigenHaß gegen jede Art von Wahrheit....
Was wäre geschehen, wenn Hitler nie gelebt hätte? Diese Frage treibt den jungen Cambridge-Historiker Michael Young und den Physik-Professor Leo Zuckermann um. Beide träumendavon,denHolocaustungeschehen zu machen. Auf wunderbare Weise schaff...
Comedian and actor Stephen Fry?s witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.
Ted Wallace - ein alternder Säufer, geschiedener Lüstling, intellektuelles Lästermaul - ist als Rezensent einer Tageszeitung gefeuert worden. Als ihn eine vormals unheilbar krankeCousinebittet, diemysteriösen Umstände ihrer Genesu...
A riotous, rambling and incomplete history of classical music, complete with leg measurementsHello, I'm Stephen Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music.. putting...
Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film...
This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with brig...