The book is all about Adrian Healey and his progress through life as a prolific liar. Stephen Fry, for those who have not heard of him, is hilarious in both writing and real life and this semi-autobiographical novel of his first twenty years is vividly detailed and, although perhaps a bit sketchy with flashbacks, is a delightful comic romp about a kid who coasts through life unscathed because of his immense skill at lying and defrauding others.
Bloom's How to Write About Stephen Crane (Bloom's How to Write About Literature)
Stephen Crane is widely recognized as a master and innovator of literary naturalism. Among his more popular works are the novels Maggie: A Girl of the Street and The Red Badge of Courage and the short stories "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," "The Blue Hotel," and "The Open Boat." Bloom's How to Write about Stephen Crane provides students with instructions on how to write an effective essay about Crane and his works and includes bibliographies, an index, and an introduction by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities.
Fry's Planet WordStephen Fry explores linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have developed in a new five-part series for BBC.
In Planet Word, Stephen dissects language in all its guises with his inimitable mixture of learning, love of lexicon and humour. He analyses how we use and abuse language and asks whether we are near to beginning to understand the complexities of its DNA.
From the time when man first mastered speech to the cyber world of modern times with its html codes and texting, Planet Word takes viewers on a journey across the globe to discover just how far humans have come when it comes to the written and spoken word.
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was JFK assassination? 11/22/63 - the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes the protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phoes and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian amed Sadie Dunhill, who becomes love of the Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
This archive-rich investigation into the changing value of knowledge comes at the issue from an original angle - the black cabbie's famed 'Knowledge' test. Stephen Fry is a celebrated British actor, novelist, journalist, presenter, intellectual and wit. He has produced four novels and two volumes of autobiography, and has written for radio shows and TV. His TV credits include Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder, and he hosted the BBC TV series QI. His readings of the Harry Potter books have won him huge acclaim and several awards.
