Non che le due storie non mi siano piaciute, ma Mrs Donaldson non ce l'ho vista proprio ad accettare la proposta di Andy e fidanzata. Bennett non me lo ha reso credibile. Credo sarebbero bastate tre righe in più per dettagliare meglio quella necessità. L'idea alla base però è eccellente.La second...
Alan Bennett is a lovely man. Lovely writer, kindly, gentle and wise. His short stories and reflections on life past and present are always worth reading. Anyone who allowed a batty old woman to live in her caravan on his driveway for many years deserves respect!Smut is short, witty and....smutty...
Alan Bennett writes about growing up in the 30's and 40's,in this heart-rendering memoir. His parents relationship, his aunties, his life flows with such clear, graphical precision, that it takes my breath away. His parents wanted to fit in with cocktail parties, and other neighborhood events, bu...
Currently almost half-way through and, to be honest, it's a toss-up as to whether or not I'll get much further. Friends who I write letters to always say that my letters are like Alan Bennett and, having only seen the "Talking Heads" monologues and other Alan Bennett pieces on TV and having read ...
The lessen I have learnt from this collection, is that I have not read enough, not by far. I dipped in and out of a brain who is comfortable with Kafka, Larkin, Auden, Proust, and other intelligent poets and writers. But this is not a stuffy intellectual brain, but a thoughtful, patient, kind, ...
Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. In Bed Among the Lentils, a vicar's wife discovers a semblance of happiness with an Indian shop owner. In A Chip in the Sugar,...
Utterly useless play. The occasional "witty" line, but the whole thing felt very self-serving, self-congratulatory, and mechanical. And this pile of self-consciously Teddibly Intellectual Claptrap won the Tony for Best Play over Martin McDonagh's magnificent LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE. The review...
I have a Goodreads shelf called British Charm, and one of my favorites from that group is Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader, a delightful novella about what would happen if the Queen of England suddenly became an avid reader. My affection for that book inspires me to seek out anything Mr. Bennet...
The Ransomes had been burgled. "Robbed," Mrs. Ransome said. "Burgled," Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though "burgled" was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item...
No hay nada más mundano que un buen funeral. Y todavía más si se trata de conmemorar a un difunto que, literalmente, ha tenido en sus brazos a la crème de la crème -de ambos sexos- de Londres. Entonces el evento puede volverse, además de mundano, atrozmente íntimo. Y se corre el riesgo de que la ...
A novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the...
E. Housman 1859–1936 Alfred Edward Housman, son of a solicitor and eldest of seven siblings, was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, and educated at St John’s College, Oxford. Failing his finals, he found work as a clerk in the London Patent Office but continued to study the classics, publishing ar...
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A large rehearsal room in the National Theatre. Already set up is the interior of the Brewhouse, Christ Church, Oxford, lodgings into which W. H. Auden had moved in 1972. There are a couple of easy chairs, a cluttered kitchen unit and piles of books and papers on every available surface. The room...