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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... taken to university life with a large , unselfconscious splash . In those days we used to correspond , and whereas my letters accuse him of ' selling out ' , his letters to me , slightly more sensibly , urge me to pull my socks up . On ...
... 't pluck up courage to take part even in these JCR smokers until my third year , by which time my days at the university seemed numbered . However , after I'd taken my degree I found myself able to stay on as a 24 WRITING HOME.
... taken for a petty thief . Dudley Moore , I imagine , goes in there with impunity ; the assistant manager may even bow to him now while throwing somebody else out . Me still , possibly . Dinner at Noon was a documentary about the Crown ...
... taken in . Still , it's the business of hotels to be one step behind the times - hotels , like colonies , keeping up a way of life that is already outmoded . ( A chambermaid in the corridor . ) Beverley goes hoover hoover outside the ...
... taken for granted by all his friends that Russell had no qualities of character at all . How else could he have been such good company ? But I went up to the hospital prepared for a change , expecting , in Larkin's phrase , to see a new ...
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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 |