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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... face it . So , not quite partaking in the national mood and , as ever , unbrushed by the wings of history , Mr Chamberlain's broadcast found us on a tram going down Tong Road into Leeds . Fearing the worst , my parents had told my ...
... face , which in the mid - fifties had just begun to go under the harrow . Richard Burton was there one night , Dennis Healey , Harold Wilson - hardly fabled names but still names one had read in the papers , creatures from a world ...
... face as red as his bricks . He sings ' Bless This House ' and ' Where'er You Walk ' , and sometimes Grandma has a little cry . These occasions go on until about 1950 , when Grandma dies . Grandma , whose name is Mary Ann Peel , has ...
... face east , the direction of the enemy and only incidentally of God . I sit in the little brick pavilion looking at this register . The book is neat ( so much is neat now when nothing was neat then ) ; it is unfingermarked , not even ...
... face , hips like that , she shows you , you know ; it's just like a leg of pork . So , what's on the agenda for today , then ? ( Hotel notice - board : Dr Barnardo's Fashion Show ' . Ballroom : two girls practise modelling . ) Although ...
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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 |