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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... week of the Cuban Missile Crisis , it was a great success . Towards the end of 1963 it was decided to revamp it , and , with the addition of some new sketches , the show went into a second edition . It was perhaps the earnestness coming ...
... week . ' This was in Leeds some time in the early years of the war , when my father , a butcher at Armley Lodge Road Co - op , was getting £ 6 a week and they thought themselves not badly off . So it's not the modesty of my mother's ...
... week of the war . That night Dad took the bus back to Leeds , my mother weeping as if he were returning to the front , and there at Wilsill we stayed - but for how long ? My brother , then aged eight , says it was three weeks ; to me ...
... weekly column in the Woman's Own she was a great fan . Beverley had been to Balliol , my mother said , so why not me ? There were plenty of reasons , the chief one being that it was so academically tip - top . It was also quite ugly ...
... week of his first term he was writing for Varsity , had enrolled with the Footlights , and had taken to university life with a large , unselfconscious splash . In those days we used to correspond , and whereas my letters accuse him of ...
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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 |