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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... death , and in particular death and its supposedly comic aspects in the North of England . Now in 1963 death was not the subject of lively interest it has since become , and even today it's hardly big on Broadway . This was also death ...
... Deaths in vicarages and ( Little ) Venice . Bottles of Jordan water and basinfuls of the warm South . School and the trenches , good talk and good wine and the never - ending siege of the country house . Messages from an unvisited ...
... death had been on Broadway . Sometimes I envy the power of my contemporary , the poet Tony Harrison , who has one defiant Leeds voice to which he subjugates everything he writes . But he had to suffer for his voice at school as I never ...
... death , 21 October 1917 , but not his age . He was twenty . He was always twenty all through my childhood , because of the photograph on the piano at my grandmother's house in Leeds . He was her only son . He sits in his uniform and ...
... death by the convention that children do not refer to relatives by anything so naked as their name . When Uncle Clarence's name comes up it is generally in connection with the undisputed nobility of his character . What is disputed is ...
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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 |