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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... stage 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 ...
... stage and the voice I had been born with for television ; my first TV plays , A Day Out ( 1972 ) and Sunset Across the Bay ( 1974 ) , were both set in the North , as have been many others since . This neat division didn't persist all ...
... stage when , unbeknownst to Mam , they would have to be flushed secretly down the lav . It was the same when we went on holiday . If the books were to be believed , every seashore was littered with starfish and delicately whorled shells ...
... stage . Acting is somehow thought to rot both mind and character . Whereas it would be inconceivable to stop someone rowing or running in their final year , it was ( and perhaps still is ) quite common to forbid him or her to act . None ...
... stage from the mysterious backstage of the Senior Common Room , a room dimly remembered from one's scholarship interview and not seen again until three years later , when one entered it before one's Schools Dinner . Fanciful perhaps to ...
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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 |