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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... scene of my youth . I was born and brought up in Leeds , where my father was a butcher . As a boy , I sometimes went out on the bike delivering orders to customers , one of whom was a Mrs Fletcher . Mrs Fletcher had a daughter , Valerie ...
... a literary history and was something of a family joke . As a child Dad had been taken to the Grand Theatre to see Uncle Tom's Cabin and in the scene in which Uncle Tom was being flogged by the overseer , Simon Legree , ΙΟ WRITING HOME.
... scene : someone is standing at a bookcase ; it may be a boy with no education , not daring to choose a book , or a wife anxious to share in the literary world of men ; it can be Joe Orton looking at Kenneth Halliwell's bookcase and ...
... scene . ' I think ' , he'd say , popping in another violet cream , ' the only person who must be more depressed than I am at this moment is Benazir Bhutto . ' He took no interest in current affairs except insofar as they intruded on his ...
... scenes together about a group of cyclists before the First World War who go on a day out to Fountains Abbey from Hebden Bridge . Then just embarking on his film career , Stephen Frears had hawked it round the BBC with no success and I'd ...
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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 |