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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... stop on at school ' everything would have been different . It wouldn't , of course : it was class and temperament , not want of education , that held their tongues ; ' stopping on at school ' might have loosened them a little but it ...
... stop was a farm . My father was a shy man and , though I'm sure there were many larger acts of bravery being done elsewhere that day , to knock at the door of the farm and ask some unknown people to take us in still seems to me to be ...
... stop , the driver generally older and more solid than the conductor ( or , I suppose , the conductress , though I don't recall conductresses coming in until after the war ) . Dad is a smoker , so we troop upstairs rather than going ...
... stop someone rowing or running in their final year , it was ( and perhaps still is ) quite common to forbid him or her to act . None of which - acting , rowing , or running - bothered me much , as I wasn't inclined to do any of them . I ...
... stop your balls popping out . I find it difficult to connect - still less reconcile - someone as noble as Uncle Clarence and a condition that is both shameful and comical and affects such as Mr Dixon , and maybe I pity Uncle Clarence ...
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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 |