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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... , which buses never did . I was away at university when they started to phase them out , Leeds as always in too much of a hurry to get to the future , and so doing the wrong thing . I knew at the time that it 18 WRITING HOME.
Alan Bennett. wrong thing . I knew at the time that it was a mistake , just as Beeching was a mistake , and that life was starting to get nastier . If trams ever come back , though , they should come back not as curiosities , nor , God ...
... thing going on at the time , just that I so seldom ventured out of my college that I didn't have much notion of what was happening outside at all . The years after the war had seen a great flowering of talent in the theatre in Oxford ...
... thing in the world worth doing . He knew a little of my cabaret performances , but they were never referred to . Around this time I recorded some sketches for BBC radio , and told him when they were due to be broadcast ; ' I listened ...
... thing . What's that ? HELPER : Just chocolate . OLD LADY : Just chocolate . I'll have a wee chocolate ... No , thank you , that's quite enough - that's a record for me anyway . I love anything chocolatey . Thank you . OLD MAN ...
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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 |