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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... walk across Ridge Road , down past the back of Christ Church ( and Miss Marsden's the confectioner's ) to ... walking up Moorfield Road to Charleycake Park and Whingate Junction . This being the terminus , the tram is empty and as likely ...
... walking up Moorfield Road to get the tram again , only this time to go and watch Dad play in his band somewhere in Wortley , and our carefree family of four has been joined by a fifth , a huge and threatening cuckoo , the double bass ...
... Walk ' , and sometimes Grandma has a little cry . These occasions go on until about 1950 , when Grandma dies . Grandma , whose name is Mary Ann Peel , has three daughters , Kathleen , Lemira and my mother , Lilian . Clarence is the ...
... walks past a chambermaid . ) That said , though , I might be expected to feel at home in rented accommodation , but for years nowhere filled me with the same unease as did a hotel . ( Opening titles . ) Town of teashops , a nice run ...
... walk . ( Grosvenor Room . ) ANDY : ... because York has this lovely sewage problem that we all know so much about , and in fact Tracy's ... Tracy's got more to spend on sewage than you have , Mike . TRACY : Well , they wouldn't have ...
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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 |