Stephen Fry

Los mitos griegos contados como nunca hasta ahora: como una apasionante novela fantástica. He aquí los mitos griegos como nunca los habíamos visto hasta ahora. Como si se tratase de una superproduccion hollywoodiense; de una serie de television al estilo de Juego de tronos; de una narracion epico-fantastica de J. R. R. Tolkien. Y es que Stephen Fry espiritu renacentista que tanto actua y presenta programas de television como escribe libros aborda la mitologia griega con pasion y sin renunciar al rigor, y nos cuenta los avatares de sus personajes como en la mas trepidante de las novelas. Y asi, asistiremos boquiabiertos a la aparicion del Caos primigenio y al nacimiento de Atenea, que emerge de la cabeza de Zeus; nos sobrecogeremos al ser testigos de como Cronos castra y destrona a su padre; temblaremos al cruzarnos con Pandora dispuesta a destapar la temible jarra; contendremos el aliento al descubrir que Persefone osa probar la fruta del Inframundo; nos emocionaremos con los amorios de Eros y Psique; iremos de caza con la hermosa ArtemisaLos mitos griegos son un fascinante compendio de amores, rivalidades, venganzas, anhelos, masacres, suicidios, pasiones, tragedias, guerras, rebeldias, culpas, vict

The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry''s hands the stories of the titans and gods become a brilliantly entertaining account of ribaldry and revelry, warfare and worship, debauchery, love affairs and life lessons, slayings and suicides, triumphs and tragedies.You''ll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia''s revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.Thoroughly spellbinding, informative and moving, Stephen Fry''s Mythos perfectly captures these stories for the modern age - in all their rich and deeply human relevance.

La guerra de Troya como nunca la habían contado: espectacular, vibrante, divertida y conmovedora. El rapto de la hermosa reina griega Helena por el príncipe troyano Paris desencadena una guerra entre ambos pueblos. Los griegos mandan a su flota y sitian la ciudad de Troya. El conflicto se prolongara diez años, y causara mucho sufrimiento y muchos muertos. Intervendran heroes como el valeroso Aquiles o el astuto Odiseo y dioses como el mismisimo Zeus. Y tambien un celeberrimo caballo de madera.¿Quien mejor que Stephen Fry para contar esta historia de la antiguedad con palabras y miradas actuales? El autor y actor, que en sus anteriores Mythos y Heroes ya nos deleito con sus repasos a la mitologia griega, vuelve a la carga en plena forma. Esta es una historia que lo tiene todo: heroismo, venganza, amor, ideales, brutalidad, traicion, desesperacion, violencia extrema,dolor, esperanza Las pasiones que mueven a los seres humanos del pasado y del presente.Y es que el mito de la guerra de Troya, que nos cuenta este libro trepidante, amenisimo y rebosante de informacion, no es mera arqueologia literaria, sino una historia con temas muy actuales. Fry nos ofrece un festin, con su portentosa capacidad narr

Né à Londres en 1957, Stephen Fry y a fait ses études à Cambridge. Comédien et réalisateur, il a été révélé au public par Peter's Friends de Kenneth Branagh. Mensonges, mensonges, son premier roman,

So begins a year-long process of torment and hopelessness, which will destroy his very identity, until almost nothing remains of him but this unquenchable desire for revenge. Whatever Stephen Fry does, he has it - that rare, unlearnable quality.

DISCOVER Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told . . . 'Perfect for the 21st Century. Ebullient, funny, Fry retells the Greek myths with elegance' The Times'A cracking good story' The Times Literary Supplement 'A wondrous new immersion in ancient stories we only thought we knew. Page to page, Mythos is brilliant, funny, erudite, inventive, surprising and enthralling' Richard North Patterson'Fry's lively writing certainly conveys his lifelong passion for Greek myths . . . It's a rollicking good read' The Independent_________No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. They are like us, only more so - their actions and adventures scrawled across the heavens above. From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for our tragic, comic, fateful age. Witness Athena born from the cracking open of Zeus's great head and follow Persephone down into the dark realm of Hades. Experience the terrible and endless fate of Prometheus after his betrayal of Zeus and shiver as Pandora opens her jar of evil torments.The Greek gods are the best and worst of us, and in Stephen Fry's hands they tell us who we are. Mythos - smart, funny, and above all great fun - is the retelling we deserve by a man who has been entertaining the nation for over four decades.'A cracking good story' The Times Literary Supplement

A hilarious and brilliant novel from the comedian, actor and polymathic TV presenter.Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted.With this funny and deliciously readable novel, Stephen Fry takes his place as one of the most talented comic novelists of his generation.

Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. Stephen Frys breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.

Ted Wallace e un vecchio dongiovanni inacidito, un poeta e critico teatrale fallito, stizzoso e alcolizzato. Licenziato in tronco va in cerca di alcune settimane di riposo e di qualche bevuta gratis nella casa di campagna del vecchio amico Logan il cui figlio, bello e misterioso, e anche suo figlioccio. A Swafford, residenza di campagna dei Logan, accadono cose strane, e mentre giungono altri ospiti la situazione volge a un finale decisamente imprevedibile.

Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic tale of TroyThe story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies.In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today.

Adrian Healey nunca fue igual a los otros chicos. Para empezar, siempre sostuvo que "si nadie dice la verdad, las mentiras no son mentiras sino la norma, es decir, la verdad". Y mintió alegremente todos los años que paso en un exclusivo colegio privado donde su amor imposible era el deseado Hugo Cartwright, siguio mintiendo cuando lo expulsaron del colegio y se movio por los bajos fondos como chapero y camello y sus mentiras se volvieron grandiosas cuando ingreso en Cambridge.Y es que alli se reencontro con Hugo Cartwright, conocio a su futura esposa y topo con el insolito profesor Donald Trefusis, filologo, poliglota y admirador de Elvis Costello, que lo haria pasear por toda Europa en una frenetica, laberintica aventura de espionaje y asesinatos que ni siquiera Adrian hubiera podido concebir. ¿O quiza si? Porque es el propio Adrian quien por fin nos desvela toda la verdad, y ya sabemos que en boca del mentiroso...

Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted.

"Fry's extraordinary book is an idiot's guide to the writing of poetry, a primer, a tutorial with funny turns, an earnest textbook..." Independent on Sunday "A smart, sane and entertaining return to

Discover the tales behind the ties in Stephen Fry's witty companion to our most distinguished accessory'A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life' Oscar Wilde'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' 'There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter' P.G. Wodehouse