Name: Revenge
SKU: 1654666
Price: 18.61 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Stephen Fry
ISBN: 9780812968194

Type

Physical Book

Author

Stephen Fry

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0812968190

ISBN13

9780812968194

Synopsis "Revenge "

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 bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege makes him an easy target for envy, and in the course of one day Ned’s destiny is forever altered. A promise made to a dying teacher combined with a prank devised by a jealous classmate mutates bewilderingly into a case of mistaken arrest and incarceration. Ned finds himself a political prisoner in a nightmarish exile that lasts years, until a fellow inmate reawakens Ned’s intellect and resurrects his will to live. The chilling consequences of Ned’s recovery are felt worldwide.

Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry (London, 1957) is an actor, presenter, and writer. Known for his roles in movies like Peter's Friends, Wilde, Gosford Park, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, V for Vendetta, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, he has also acted in TV series, such as Jeeves and Wooster, where he played Jeeves, the great character by Wodehouse. At Anagrama, he has published the novel The Liar and the essays Mythos, Heroes, and Troy.

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