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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... OF AFFECTION ( BBC ) TALKING HEADS ( BBC ) screenplays A PRIVATE FUNCTION PRICK UP YOUR EARS THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE autobiography THE LADY IN THE VAN ( LRB ) WRITING HOME Writing Home ALAN BENNETT Picador New York WRITING HOME .
... Talking Heads : Julie Walters , Maggie Smith , Patricia Routledge , Stephanie Cole and Thora Hird ( Radio Times ) 47 The Wind in the Willows , December 1990 ( Clive Barda / Performing Arts Library ) 48 Michael Bryant and David Bamber in ...
Alan Bennett. Introduction In a Manner of Speaking This book brings together the talks , diaries and occasional journalism that I have written over the last twenty years or so , mostly for the BBC or the London Review of Books . I have ...
... talk and good wine and the never - ending siege of the country house . Messages from an unvisited island . ( The Old Country ) Set in a public school , part play and part revue , Forty Years On had nothing to do with any world that I'd ...
... talks . I tried to lose my northern accent at one period , then reacquired it , and now don't know where I am , sometimes saying my ' a's long , sometimes short , and ' u's a continuing threat , words like ' butcher ' and names like ...
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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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