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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... feel it faintly ridiculous to have had . When I moved to Magdalen , as the most junior of junior lecturers , it was rather different . Whereas Exeter was still in the era of the proscenium arch with the dons entering stage left in ...
... feels the years might have smoothed out to end up Rutledge and Liversedge . Many Canadians ' known only to God ' . The low walls are sharp and new - looking , unblurred by creeper . There is no lichen on the gravestones , the dead ...
... feeling slightly panic - stricken , I scribbled some autobiographical notes which I could deliver either straight to camera or as a commentary over footage of the various functions and goings - on in the hotel . Thus the finished film ...
... feel at home in rented accommodation , but for years nowhere filled me with the same unease as did a hotel . ( Opening titles . ) Town of teashops , a nice run - out from Leeds - Harrogate , where hotels abound and always have ...
... feel very proud to stand before you all as Chairman of the General Council of the Institution of Environmental Health Officers . To have that honour this year is the highlight so far of my professional career , and today for me is ...
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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 |