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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... night and it won't happen again ! " ' This I dutifully did and then had to sign it ' Alan Bennett ' . If I'm ever deemed worthy of a biography I'd like to see what Andrew Motion or Humphrey Carpenter will make of that . Alan Bennett ...
... night Dad took the bus back to Leeds , my mother weeping as if he were returning to the front , and there at Wilsill we stayed - but for how long ? My brother , then aged eight , says it was three weeks ; to me , three years younger ...
... particular words . I had read in many stories , beginning I suppose with Babes in the Wood , how the childish hero and heroine , lost in the forest , had nevertheless spent a cosy night bedded down on pine needles 6 WRITING HOME.
... night after school . That was not sward . So once , hearing of some woods in Bramley , a few miles from where we lived , I went off on the trail of sward , maybe hoping to come across pine needles in the process . I trailed out past the ...
Alan Bennett. happy , and one miserable December night in 1945 the four of us got off the train at Holbeck and trailed disconsolately back to my grandma's house and reality . It was another lesson that you should not believe what you ...
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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 |