Writing HomePicador, 2007 M04 1 - 688 páginas Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material from the author, including more recent diaries and his introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George. A chronicle of one of the most important literary careers of the twentieth century, Writing Home is a classic history of a life in letters. |
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... John 489 Instead of a Present 498 The Wrong Blond 504 Kafka at Las Vegas 516 Comfortable Words 538 Alas ! Deceived 548 A. E. Housman , 1859-1936 579 Stocking Fillers Tit for Tatti The Pith and its Pitfalls Say Cheese , Virginia ...
... ( John Timbers / BBC TV ) 29 Kafka's Dick , Royal Court Theatre , September 1986 30 Kafka's Dick , Jim Broadbent and ... ( John Haynes ) 40 A Question of Attribution , BBC Ealing , July 1991 ( John Timbers ) 41 102 Boulevard Haussmann , BBC ...
... John Braine ) , writers who had escaped the mill or the mine and made good , the making good invariably taking the form of going Down South . These books , and those my brother and I read , would be borrowed from Armley Library at the ...
... John Bull , the point of which was to come up with a telling phrase on a given topic , the phrase to be witty , ironic or ambiguous - in effect a verbal cartoon . Once he had regularly won small prizes , but though he went on plugging ...
... John Schlesinger , who were veterans of that ENSA concert party Peter Nichols has written about in Privates on Parade . There was sterner stuff in directors in the making like Lindsay Anderson and Ronald Eyre , and even management was ...
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Peter Cook 19371995 | 77 |
The Writer in Disguise | 427 |
The Insurance Man | 447 |
Gielguds Achievements | 463 |
Cold Sweat | 475 |
Bad John | 489 |
Instead of a Present | 498 |
The Wrong Blond | 504 |
Kafka at Las Vegas | 516 |
The Lady in the Van | 83 |
Postscript | 121 |
Forty Years On and Other Plays | 313 |
An Englishman Abroad | 329 |
The Wind in the Willows | 337 |
The King and I | 353 |
The Madness of King George | 372 |
Forty Years On | 395 |
A Day Out | 418 |
Comfortable Words | 538 |
Alas Deceived | 548 |
A E Housman 18591936 | 578 |
Tit for Tatti | 587 |
Say Cheese Virginia | 594 |
Going Round | 606 |
Acknowledgements | 613 |
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Differently Literate: Boys, Girls, and the Schooling of Literacy Elaine Millard Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |