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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... Road , down past the back of Christ Church ( and Miss Marsden's the confectioner's ) to Stanningley Road . Stanningley Road is already a dual carriageway because the tram tracks running down the middle of the road are pebbled and ...
... Road into town or , if we are going to see Grandma , who lives in the Gilpins , we will get off halfway at Fourteenth Avenue . Around 1942 , though , we come into the double - bass period , when some of our tram journeys become fraught ...
... 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 . Knowing what is to ...
... Road . A group of us at the Modern School scorned school dinners and came home for lunch , catching the tram from another terminus at West Park . We were all keen on music and went every Saturday to hear the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra ...
... Road cinema in his dinner - jacket , or gents ' outfitters in general . I don't recall anyone ever collecting tram numbers , but the route numbers had a certain mystique , the even numbers slightly superior to the odd , which tended to ...
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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 |