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. was being flogged by the overseer , Simon Legree , a woman sitting next to Dad in the gallery shouted out , ' You bad sod ! ' The actor playing Simon Legree stopped , looked up at the gallery , leered , and then laid it on ...
... sit inside and pretend he isn't with us , Dad stands on the platform grasping the bass by the neck as if he's about ... sitting on the top deck again . After the war we move to Far Headingley , where Dad , having worked all his life for ...
Alan Bennett. tram ( though none with a double bass ) , sitting there , rather shabby and ordinary and often with tab ends in their mouths , worlds away from the Delius , Walton and Brahms which they had been playing . It was a first ...
... sits in his uniform and puttees in Mr Lonnergan's studio down Woodsley Road . Lonnergan's , a classy place that does you a good likeness . Less classy but still doing a good likeness , Mr Lonnergan takes pictures of my brother and me in ...
... sit down to high tea in the kitchen . After tea , the sitting - room still smelling of smoke , Aunt Eveline arranges herself on the piano stool and with my father on the violin ( ' Now then , Walter , what shall we give them ? ' ) kicks ...
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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 |