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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... ' . It would have taken more than T. S. Eliot to silence them . Having said goodbye to Mrs Fletcher and the refined gentleman ( whoever he was ) , Mam would have come away wishing she ' had a bit more off ' - X WRITING HOME.
... taken into a back room where , unfeeling and unobserved , I could polish off four hundred copies an hour . Waterstone's don't seem to have many back rooms so I usually ended up signing stock in the staff room . Bath , Cambridge ...
... taken on a form in the bus station at Vicar Lane , where we waited half that day for any bus that would take us out of the supposedly doomed city . Early that afternoon a bus came , bound for Pateley Bridge , the other side of Harrogate ...
... history and was something of a family joke . As a child Dad had been taken to the Grand Theatre to see Uncle Tom's Cabin and in the scene in which Uncle Tom was being flogged by the overseer , Simon Legree , ΙΟ WRITING HOME.
... taken it for granted that our taste in reading coincided that I forgot how shy and fastidious my father was and how far his world still was from mine . Though there may have been a priggish element of ' I think you are now ready for ...
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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 |