Writing HomeBringing 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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So there was a time when I thought my only connection with the literary world
would be that I had once delivered meat to T. S. Eliot's mother - in - law . A few
years later , when my dad had sold the shop but we were still living in Leeds , my
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So there was a time when I thought my only connection with the literary world
would be that I had once delivered meat to T. S. Eliot's mother - in - law . A few
years later , when my dad had sold the shop but we were still living in Leeds , my
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From time to time after this my mother's hands would be covered in terrible
eczema , the joints cracked open , the skin scaling away . “ My hands have
broken out again , ' she would say , and put it down to the wrong soap . But it was
as if she ...
From time to time after this my mother's hands would be covered in terrible
eczema , the joints cracked open , the skin scaling away . “ My hands have
broken out again , ' she would say , and put it down to the wrong soap . But it was
as if she ...
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My mother's idea of a university owed less to Cardinal Newman than it did to
Beverley Nichols , of whose weekly column in the Woman's Own she was a great
fan . Beverley had been to Balliol , my mother said , so why not me ? There were
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My mother's idea of a university owed less to Cardinal Newman than it did to
Beverley Nichols , of whose weekly column in the Woman's Own she was a great
fan . Beverley had been to Balliol , my mother said , so why not me ? There were
...
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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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Página 504 - Each of you will find the person you came here to look for -the ideal companion to whom you can reveal yourself totally and yet be loved for what you are, not what you pretend to be. You, Wystan, will find him very soon, within three months. You, Christopher, will have to wait much longer for yours. He is already living in the city where you will settle. He will be near you for many years without your meeting. But it would be no good if you did meet him now. At present, he is only four years old.
Página 479 - The most fortunate of normals is likely to have his half-hidden failing, and for every little failing there is a social occasion when it will loom large, creating a shameful gap between virtual and actual social identity.
Página 476 - ... made the perfunctory gesture of annoyance by which people mean to show that they have waited long enough, although they never make it when they are really waiting, then pushing back his hat and exposing a scalp cropped close except at the sides where he allowed a pair of waved "pigeon's-wings...
Página 540 - The Lord bless you and keep you and all who are dear unto you ' As the blessing is a congregational blessing and meant to be This is questionable on theological grounds But is it not offensive to the ear and also ludicrous? That ' unto ' is a particularly ripe piece of idiocy Oh how offensive it is.
Página 487 - A man's status in English society has always depended primarily on his own consciousness; for the English are not a methodical or logical nation — they perceive and accept facts without anxiously inquiring into their reasons or meaning. Whatever is apt to raise a man's self-consciousness — be it birth, rank, wealth, intellect, daring, or achievements — will add to his stature; but it has to be translated into the truest expression of his sub-conscious self-valuation: uncontending ease, the...
Referencias a este libro
Differently Literate: Boys, Girls, and the Schooling of Literacy Elaine Millard Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Writing Home |
| Autor | Alan Bennett |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | Picador, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1429901039, 9781429901031 |
| Largo | 688 páginas |
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