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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... diaries for 1993 , 1994 and 1995 and some previously overlooked entries from 1986 , all again from the London Review of Books ; there is also an account of the making of the film The Madness of King George and XV INTRODUCTION.
... film director John Schlesinger , who were veterans of that ENSA concert party Peter Nichols has written about in Privates on Parade . There was sterner stuff in directors in the making like Lindsay Anderson and Ronald Eyre , and even ...
... film . The early material we shot was also pretty stilted and banal , and I became even more apprehensive about the end result . Docu- mentary film - makers , of course , must often find themselves in this predicament , but it was new ...
... film's about - not class , which I don't like , but classes , types , which I do ; and a hotel like this is a good place to see them . ( Lobby . ) Behaviour's a bit muted , but that's part of the setting . The foyers of American hotels ...
... film career , Stephen Frears had hawked it round the BBC with no success and I'd stopped thinking about it and got ... films and plays together - the last one this summer , in the final months of Innes's life . To begin with I was ...
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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 |