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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... thought my only connection with the literary world would be that I had once delivered meat to T. S. Eliot's mother - in - law . A few years later , when my dad had sold the shop but we were still living in Leeds , my mother came in one ...
... thought . I was educated ; I could be myself ; I had a self it was not embarrassing to be . So I see this awkward encounter with Mr Eliot as a kind of parable , a prefiguring of how , when I did eventually start to write , it should be ...
... thought themselves not badly off . So it's not the modesty of my mother's aspirations that seems surprising now but the direction . Why gentlemen farmers ? And the answer , of course , was books . We had , it's true , had some ...
... thought of as ' blossoming ' , and I saw as an essential ingredient in the blossoming process a nice period background . Exeter's strong artistic suit was its connection with Morris and Burne - Jones , but the Pre- Raphaelites weren't ...
... thought , than jam on the entrance form ) . In the mystifying permutations of choice my parents stood by helpless ; they scarcely knew what a university was , let alone the status of its component parts . The irony , of course , was ...
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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 |