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.

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

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

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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