Untold Stories (SIGNED COPY)

Bennett,Alan

ISBN 10: 0571228305 / ISBN 13: 9780571228300

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2005

About this Item

This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's green hardcover cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED by Alan Bennett on the Title Page.The book has a firm binding and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.The dust-jacket comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.Thick and Heavy 8vo 658pp First Edition 1st Impression [2005].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Untold Stories (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571228305
• ISBN 13: 9780571228300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERATURE

About this title

Synopsis

Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition.

Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud.

Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George. The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play.

Untold Stories is published jointly with Profile Books.

About the Author

Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic. The History Boys won numerous awards both at the National Theatre, London, and on Broadway. Also at the NT: The Habit of Art, People and Cocktail Sticks. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George, and appeared with Dame Maggie Smith in a radio adaptation of his The Lady in the Van. His collection of prose Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography. Fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories. His most recent publication is Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin.