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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... Leeds voice to which he subjugates everything he writes . But he had to suffer for his voice at school as I never did , and so sets more store by it ( nor , I imagine , did his mother ever meet T. S. Eliot ) . Not that having two voices ...
... Leeds ... these staff rooms are the same : one goes in and there is a nylon shirt hanging up to dry , some socks over the radiator , half a pizza three days old and a bicycle wheel . I was following round the Australian novelist Peter ...
... 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 aspirations that seems ...
... 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 , three years younger , it seemed months ; but , weeks ...
... over the dappled surface . Not , so far as I could see , in Leeds . There were owls in hollow trees , so the nature books said , but I saw no owls - and hollow trees were in pretty short supply too . The only 5 PAST AND PRESENT.
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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 |