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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... feeling that some of my contributions were less so and more earnest than the rest . After a spell in the West End the show went to America in 1962 , where , despite opening in New York during the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis , it ...
... feel tempted to write like that any more . I know there are repetitions , but I've made no attempt to eradicate them lest I be left with a literary doily . I think it was Kenneth ( not the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) Clark who said ...
... feeling myself as nailed to my table as ever my Dad was to his shop counter . They never did escape quite , though they made a shot at it just once when , towards the end of the war , my father gave up his job at the Co - op , answered ...
... was less time to fill . Deliverance came in the summer of 1959. In that year the Oxford Theatre Group first put on a revue on the fringe at the Edinburgh Festival . Feeling immensely old and foolish at twenty 25 PAST AND PRESENT.
Alan Bennett. Edinburgh Festival . Feeling immensely old and foolish at twenty - five , I nervously auditioned for the writer and director Stanley Daniels . He was an American , also a postgraduate , who appeared ( so much for my qualms ) ...
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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 |