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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... called Better Late . It was a great success , to the extent that the official Festival took note and the following year decided to put on a revue of its own , inviting Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller from Cambridge and Dudley Moore and ...
... called up in 1952 . But the puttee survives ( along with many of the attitudes that go with it ) in that stagnant military backwater the Army Cadet Corps . No school I ever attend runs to one , but in the short time we are in Guildford ...
... called them a grand couple . SHE : Is it sweet enough for you ? Sweet enough for you ? HE : Yes . It never worries me . My mother's scheme of things admitted to much finer distinctions than were allowed by the sociologists . She'd talk ...
... called Bitter Lemon . ' Of course by this time my aspirations for them had changed anyway . Now I wanted them to stay the same as they'd been when I was a child . It didn't matter any more . Once , when I had a play on in the West End ...
... called Wristwatch . ' Some random thoughts : He loved Italy , hated Greece . He liked families and was an ami de maison in half a dozen households . He was uncensorious of himself and of other people . He knew that there are no rules ...
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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 |