Alan Bennett

Writing Home

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Produktbeschreibung

Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramatists, most recently with The History Boys at the National Theatre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780571315727
• ISBN-10: 0571315720
• Artikelnr.: 40693804

Autorenporträt

Alan Bennett

© John Timbers

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: In a Manner of Speaking
Past and Present
The Treachery of Books
Leeds Trams
Not History at All . . .
Uncle Clarence
Dinner at Noon
Russell Harty, 1934-1988
Innes Lloyd, 1925-1991
Peter Cook, 1937-1995
The Lady in the Van
Postscript
Diaries 1980-1995
Prefaces to Plays
Forty Years On and Other Plays
An Englishman Abroad
The Wind in the Willows
The King and I
The Madness of King George
Filming and Rehearsing
Forty Years On
A Day Out
The Writer in Disguise
The Insurance Man
Books and Writers
Gielgud's Achievements
Cold Sweat
Bad John
Instead of a Present
The Wrong Blond
Kafka at Las Vegas
Comfortable Words
Alas! Deceived
A. E. Housman, 1859-1936
Stocking Fillers
Tit for Tatti
The Pith and its Pitfalls
Say Cheese, Virginia!
Christmas in NW1
Going Around
Acknowledgements
Index

Rezensionen

Simply the funniest and most poignant thing I've read all year... only fools and madmen will pass up the chance to read it. Writing Home is a must.' Tatler