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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... to happen for a while , we went back home , leaving Byril Farm ( which is now , alas , not a farm and has carriage lamps ) standing out in my mind as the one episode in my childhood that lived up to the story 4 WRITING HOME.
Alan Bennett. episode in my childhood that lived up to the story - books . I had read quite a few story - books by this time , as I had learned to read quite early by dint , it seemed to me , of staring over my brother's shoulder at the ...
... down to particular words . I had read in many stories , beginning I suppose with Babes in the Wood , how the childish hero and heroine , lost in the forest , had nevertheless spent a cosy night bedded down on pine needles 6 WRITING HOME.
... story of someone brought up , as she had been , in a mill town but who had bought a horse and gone off on his travels . - This theme of escape , very strong in Wells and Priestley , tantalized my parents for much of their lives . Dreams ...
... story ) if they hadn't got away from their surroundings they had at any rate transcended them . So on a bleak February day in the late forties she and I took the Keighley bus to Haworth to see the famous parsonage . Not so famous then ...
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Russell Harty 19341988 | 63 |
Innes Lloyd 19251991 | 71 |
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 |