Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in the fascinating book that orginally accompanied his journey for the BBC1 series. 'Stephen Fry is a treasure of the British Empire.' - The Guardian Stephen Fry has always loved America, in fact he came very close to being born there.

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Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

De jonge Ned Maddstone is knap, charmant en getalenteerd. Hij begint net aan zijn studie aan Cambridge om later in de politieke voetsporen van zijn vader te kunnen treden. Het leven lijkt hem toe te lachen, zeker als hij ook nog de lieftallige Portia Fenderman ontmoet. Tot hij zich na een uit de hand gelopen grap op school plots in een streng bewaakte gevangenis bevindt en de toekomst er veel minder rooskleurig uitziet. Ned leeft nog maar voor één ding: wraak. Kil en berekenend beraamt hij ...

A memoir that tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, the author survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger.