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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... sense of already having thrown in the towel that I settled down to college life . The JCR in Exeter at that time was more central to the life of the college than in other colleges I visited . At the heart of it was the institution of ...
... sense that a corner had been turned . I had always been a late starter , so , friendly though the atmosphere was , I didn't pluck up courage to take part even in these JCR smokers until my third year , by which time my days at the ...
... sense , I think , that making people laugh was not a proper activity for a post- graduate and that I ought somehow to be acquiring more dignity ; except that by now I was being asked to perform in other colleges and do cabaret for ...
... sense of a nightly performance that I had - and 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 ...
... sense of just having missed his time that made him in so much of his work celebrate heroes - Orde Wingate , Donald Campbell , Amy Johnson , Bomber Harris and the troops at Arnhem . It was a side of him that my stuff didn't cater for ...
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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 |