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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... side of Harrogate . Somewhere along the way and quite at random the four of us got off and our small odyssey was ended . It was a village called Wilsill , in Nidderdale . There were a few houses , a shop , a school and a church and ...
... side of a single- track railway . There is a gate , a long finger of lawn alongside the railway , another gate and the burial - ground proper : Uncle Clarence's stone , the stone which is not his grave , is in a row backing on to the ...
... side of the railway line to Menin , between the hamlets of Verbranden- molen and Zwarvelden was a small plantation of larches , and a cemetery was made at the north end of this wood . It was begun in April 1915 and used by troops ...
... side of hotel life , and they would have liked this kind of hotel : weddings , dinner dances , functions galore . Not that there'd ever be anything in which they'd dream of participating , only there'd be more to see , more types , more ...
... side of him that my stuff didn't cater for - to say the least - but with which Innes was in his element . Stephen Frears had been drawn to him because Innes had come to Drama via Outside Broadcasting and so had no particular aesthetic ...
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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 |