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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Alan Bennett. by the same author plays PLAYS ONE ( Forty Years On , Getting On , Habeas Corpus and Enjoy ) PLAYS TWO ( Kafka's Dick , The Insurance Man , The Old Country , An Englishman Abroad , A Question of Attribution ) OFFICE SUITE ...
... play , Forty Years On ( 1968 ) , it had much more to do with art than life , wasn't life at all in fact but the product ( and it's not to disparage it to say it's also the waste product ) of years of reading memoirs of literary life ...
... plays ' speaking properly ' ( e.g. An Englishman Abroad and 102 Boulevard Haussmann ) I've still only managed one Northern play for the stage ( Enjoy ) and that was hardly a success , as mystifying to a West End audience as the northern ...
... play it on the wind - up gramophone in its red Rexine cover . In theory the dresser is out of bounds and I can only look in it if my brother is out playing with his pals or swimming at Armley Baths and Grandma and I are alone in the ...
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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 |