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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... fact that this was something they themselves seldom managed to be , at any rate in company . Funny and voluble on their own , the slightest social pressure sent them into smiling , nodding silence . But it was different for me , they ...
... fact but the product ( and it's not to disparage it to say it's also the waste product ) of years of reading memoirs of literary life , tales of novelists ' schooldays and the period between the wars . Or , as a character in a later ...
... Fact too was fiction , as textbooks seemed to bear no more relation to the real world than did the story - books . At school or in my Boy's Book of the Universe I read of the minor wonders of nature - the sticklebacks that haunted the ...
... fact that I had to share a set with someone who had been in the same barrack room for much of my national service and whom I loathed and who loathed me , I was quite happy . In the army one of my friends was Michael Frayn , subsequently ...
... fact that my movements were thus severely restricted I was too shy to get up and free them . It was a particularly delicious dinner that night , but I saw little of it . The scouts kept lowering dishes towards me but hovered ...
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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 |