Alan Bennett, 1934 in Leeds geboren, wurde bekannt durch seine TV Comedy-Revue »Beyond the Fringe« sowie durch die 1987 unter dem Titel »Talking Heads« von der BBC gesendeten Monologe. Neben zahlreichen Theaterstücken – unter anderem eine Theaterfassung des englischen Kinderbuchklassikers »Der Wind in den Weiden« – und seinen Arbeiten für Fernsehen und Rundfunk schreibt Bennett seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre auch Prosa.
Eines seiner bekanntesten Werke ist “Die souveräne Leserin”.
44 Ebook di Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett: Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett's classic story about Queen Elizabeth IIWhat would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncom …
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Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett Plays 1
This collection of Alan Bennett's work includes his first play and West End hit, Forty Years On, as well as Getting On, Habeus Corpus, and Enjoy. Forty Years On'Alan Bennett's most glo …
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Alan Bennett: Writing Home
Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unfo …
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Alan Bennett: History Boys
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed …
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage o …
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Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett Plays 2
This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of At …
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Alan Bennett: Lady in the Van
Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home …
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Alan Bennett: Madness of George III
George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government …
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Alan Bennett: Life Like Other People’s
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and …
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Alan Bennett: Habit of Art
Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin B …
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Alan Bennett: People
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world … a sal …
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Alan Bennett: Hymn and Cocktail Sticks
It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book. Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the …
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Alan Bennett: Two Kafka Plays
'You have to keep your ears open for Alan Bennett's Insurance Man. It had visual impact so powerful that you were in danger of missing some very good lines simply because nobody spoke them …
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Alan Bennett: The Wind in the Willows
”Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn”t matter. Whether you get away or you don”t, w …
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Alan Bennett & Alan Bennett: Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.In this personal anthology, Ala …
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Alan Bennett: Lady in the Van
Adapted for the screen by the author from his celebrated memoir, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, is directed by long-standing collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of t …
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Alan Bennett: Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Alan Bennett is the acknowledged master of the television play. This vintage collection of his work from the 1970s illustrates his skill and mastery of the medium from the beginning. Perceptive, poig …
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Alan Bennett: Rolling Home
Funny, touching and real, this second collection of Alan Bennett's classic work for television from the late 1970s and early 1980s is full of fine observations of life as it is lived. Often imit …
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Alan Bennett: Private Function
The Old Crowd A Private Function Prick Up Your Ears102 Boulevard Haussmann The Madness of King George Starring characters as diverse as George III, Marcel Proust, Joe Orton, and a pig called Betty, A …
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Alan Bennett & Alan Bennett: History Boys
Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boys with a comprehensive study guide. Highlights of An …
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Alan Bennett: Allelujah!
– What were you in life?- In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as p …
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Alan Bennett: Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-nig …
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Alan Bennett: Die Lady im Lieferwagen
Alan Bennett, Meister des trockenen britischen Humors und der feinen Gemeinheiten, erzählt von Miss Shepherds schrulligen Methoden, das Leben zu meistern, von den Besonderheiten der englischen Straße …
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Alan Bennett & Kenneth Grahame: Il vento tra i salici
Sulla Riva del fiume, Topo, Talpa, Rospo e Tasso sono buoni amici e vivono in serenità. Ben presto, però, abbandonano la loro vita tranquilla per tuffarsi nelle straordinarie avventure del Vasto mond …
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Bennett Alan Bennett: Six Poets
The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of w …
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Alan Bennett: Lady in the Van and Other Stories
Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Bennett’s famous and heartwarming story "The Lady in the Van" and more of his classic short-form work.Alan Bennett has long been one of the …
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Alan Bennett: Writing Home
A collection of articles, reviews, essays, and diaries from the celebrated writer: "A wonderful book, the wit of which spills over even into the index" (The Times, London).Bringing together …
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Alan Bennett: Complete Talking Heads
The complete Olivier Award-winning monologue series from one of Britain’s most renowned playwrights: "A masterclass in storytelling." -Guardian, UKTalking Heads is a classic of contemporary …
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Alan Bennett: Smut
One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The …
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Alan Bennett: Father! Father! Burning Bright
Alan Bennett’s second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. ‘On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, …
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Alan Bennett: The Clothes They Stood Up In
The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett’s first story. Like Charles Dickens’ novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books – which the auth …
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Alan Bennett: The Laying On Of Hands
Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His ‘services’ were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they — the film stars and politicia …
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Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On
‘I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and esse …
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Alan Bennett: The Lady in the Van
In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett’s garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviti …
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Alan Bennett: Four Stories
Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people’s foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And a …
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Alan Bennett: Smut
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn’t all that satisfactory eit …
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Alan Bennett: Talking Heads
The ebook edition of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues'Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is pretty much the best thing ever.' David Sedaris Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the …
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Alan Bennett: Two Besides
Two brand-new monologues in the Talking Heads series, as seen on BBC1 and i Player'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them …
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Roger Statham: The Golden Age of Probation
The Golden Age of Probation is the first book on probation by those practitioners who became its leaders. A comprehensive account exploring culture, values and tensions. It looks at the dynamics of p …
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Alan Bennett: Meeting the Devil
Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979. This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRB s pages.Her …
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Alan Bennett: House Arrest
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022 ‘Sparklingly sardonic … There really is no one like Bennett’ Independent ‘Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip … a major …
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Alan Bennett: Keeping On Keeping On
One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year: "Humorous, surprising, disarmingly human" essays and comic pieces from one of England’s national treasures (The Washington Post Book World).A Milwaukee …
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Alan Bennett: Killing Time
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Killing Time is a wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett – a brand new story, set in a home for the elderly; a glorious, darkly comic treat. 'A mini-masterpiece.& …
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