Writing Home

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Picador, 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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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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Página 579 - Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows : What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
Página 504 - Each of you will find the person you came here to look for -the ideal companion to whom you can reveal yourself totally and yet be loved for what you are, not what you pretend to be. You, Wystan, will find him very soon, within three months. You, Christopher, will have to wait much longer for yours. He is already living in the city where you will settle. He will be near you for many years without your meeting. But it would be no good if you did meet him now. At present, he is only four years old.
Página 479 - The most fortunate of normals is likely to have his half-hidden failing, and for every little failing there is a social occasion when it will loom large, creating a shameful gap between virtual and actual social identity.
Página 476 - ... made the perfunctory gesture of annoyance by which people mean to show that they have waited long enough, although they never make it when they are really waiting, then pushing back his hat and exposing a scalp cropped close except at the sides where he allowed a pair of waved "pigeon's-wings...
Página 540 - The Lord bless you and keep you and all who are dear unto you ' As the blessing is a congregational blessing and meant to be This is questionable on theological grounds But is it not offensive to the ear and also ludicrous? That ' unto ' is a particularly ripe piece of idiocy Oh how offensive it is.
Página 487 - A man's status in English society has always depended primarily on his own consciousness; for the English are not a methodical or logical nation — they perceive and accept facts without anxiously inquiring into their reasons or meaning. Whatever is apt to raise a man's self-consciousness — be it birth, rank, wealth, intellect, daring, or achievements — will add to his stature; but it has to be translated into the truest expression of his sub-conscious self-valuation: uncontending ease, the...

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Alan Bennett is a renowned playwright and essayist, whose screenplay for The Madness of King George was nominated for an Academy Award. He is also the author of The Clothes They Stood Up In and Writing Home. He lives in London, England

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