Book Details

Audio Cassette
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio; Abridged Ed edition (21 Aug 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0001046438
ISBN-13: 978-0001046436
Condition: Used and in very good condition. Authentic.

Book Description

The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel by Stephen Fry. The novel has an ingenious plot filled with surprises and glittering with hilarious, often indecent inventions: a pugnacious faculty meeting that collapses into an exchange of obscenities, the fabrication of a 'lost' pornographic novel by Charles Dickens, and an exercise in intellectual gamesmanship that engages some of the finest minds and blackest hearts in England. Stephen Fry’s sympathetic portrayal of his defiantly unconventional hero makes for an outrageously entertaining debut. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis

Adrian Healey is not like other boys at school. He loves Hugo Cartwright, but is loved by the less appetizing Pigs Trotter. He goes to Cambridge and with his philosophy Professor embarks on an adventure that takes in an international espionage conspiracy and disgraceful scenes on the cricket field.

From the Publisher

Stephen Fry’s first novel is a humorous adventure in which a public schoolboy witnesses the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist and finds himself drawn into the ensuing investigation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

As well as being the bestselling author of three novels, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Stars’ Tennis Balls, and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, Fry has played Peter in Peter’s Friends, Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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