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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... course , was anything like the Cambridge Footlights , with a tradition of revue and comedy - writing . I'm sure if there had been I would have failed to join that too . So it was with a certain sense of already having thrown in the ...
... course joined up . And here he sits in the photograph , just three months before his death , a whole man again . In the photograph he is wearing puttees . At what point private soldiers ceased to wear these long bandages wrapped round ...
... is neat now when nothing was neat then ) ; it is unfingermarked , not even dog - eared . It might be drawn from the Bodleian Library , not from a cupboard in a wall in the middle of a field . Of course if this foreign 37 PAST AND PRESENT.
... course of which an old man and his wife stumped past , whereupon the assistant manager left off abusing us in order to bow . It was Stravinsky . We were then thrown out . I have never set foot in the Pierre since , fearing I might still ...
... course , must often find themselves in this predicament , but it was new to me , and so , feeling slightly panic - stricken , I scribbled some autobiographical notes which I could deliver either straight to camera or as a commentary ...
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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 |