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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... : to her my life had not changed since I was fourteen and doing School Certificate , so degree , research or writing plays was always called ' your swotting ' . As a young man my father had some literary ambitions 9 PAST AND PRESENT.
Alan Bennett. As a young man my father had some literary ambitions , going in for competitions in magazines such as Tit - Bits and even sending in little paragraphs and being paid . By the forties his efforts were concentrated on one ...
... young man from the RSC . At Magdalen too the visitors were grander and the regular repertory company more distinguished : C. S. Lewis , Gilbert Ryle , A. J. P. Taylor , daunting neighbours at dinner , my memories of those meals as vivid ...
... young boy 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 ...
... young couple reading Country Life . ) HE : ... boring . Is yours boring ? SHE : Mine's riveting . HE : Mine's thoroughly dull . SHE : That's what they're for . Oh , look at that ! Isn't it gorgeous ? HE : . . . country houses round here ...
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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 |