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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... kind of parable , a prefiguring of how , when I did eventually start to write , it should be in two different voices , metropolitan ( ' speaking properly ' ) and provincial ( ' being yourself ' ) , and that if one takes T. S. Eliot to ...
... kind of thing one was expected to read . And just as one read what one was expected to read , so , when I started very haltingly to write , I wrote what one was expected to write : not , that is , about life , in my case the life of a ...
... kind , and the most impressive teacher , and in some ways the most impressive man , I have ever come across . One could go and chat to him without seemingly ever touching on the subject of one's research and come away convinced that ...
... kind of theatre , a theatre in which the undergraduates were the audience and the actors were the dons . At Exeter they entered - climbed almost - on to the stage from the mysterious backstage of the Senior Common Room , a room dimly ...
... kind of name , a name out of farce and , like Albert , never revamped , remains in our family the name of a saint . If my mother is asked about Uncle Clarence the reply is always ' He was a love . He was a grand fellow . ' What job he ...
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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 |