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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... sure the address to the Prayer Book Society belongs under ' Books ' , but what does one call ' Tit for Tatti ' or ' Going Round ?? Skits , I suppose , though I don't like the word ; humour , though I don't like that very much either ...
... sure there were many larger acts of bravery being done elsewhere that day , to knock at the door of the farm and ask some unknown people to take us in still seems to me to be heroic . Their name was Weatherhead and they did take us in ...
... sure I didn't at that time . ) My mother's idea of a university owed less to Cardinal Newman than it did to Beverley Nichols , of whose weekly column in the Woman's Own she was a great fan . Beverley had been to Balliol , my mother said ...
... to do any of them . I had carried over from national service ( and in this I'm sure I wasn't alone ) a suspicion of volunteering , of joining , indeed of conspicuous activity of any sort . So I became a member 22 WRITING HOME.
... sure if there had been I would have failed to join that too . So it was with a certain sense of already having thrown in the towel that I settled down to college life . The JCR in Exeter at that time was more central to the life of the ...
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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 |