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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... entirely understood , The Cocktail Party when it came to the Leeds Grand Theatre on its provincial tour , and also Murder in the Cathedral done at a local church . I had even read Notes Towards a Definition xi INTRODUCTION.
Alan Bennett. church . I had even read Notes Towards a Definition of Culture , but only because I was soon to try for a Cambridge scholarship and it seemed the kind of thing one was expected to read . And just as one read what one was ...
... Church . This latter address was done from what the Dictionary of National Biography always refers to as ' personal knowledge ' ; the Hous- man piece was not done from personal knowledge at all , though the presentation of the window ...
... church and , though we were miles from any town , even here the stream had been dammed to make a static water tank in readiness for the firefighters and the expected bombs . Opposite the bus - stop was a farm . My father was a shy man ...
... Church ( and Miss Marsden's the confectioner's ) to Stanningley Road . Stanningley Road is already a dual carriageway because the tram tracks running down the middle of the road are pebbled and enclosed by railings , so splitting what ...
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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 |