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Alan Bennettby Alan BennettISBN 0563558954 (0-563-55895-4)
Hardcover, BBC Worldwide
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The Alan Bennett Diariesby Alan BennettISBN 0563935642 (0-563-93564-2)
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Alan Bennett: Plays 2 Kafka's Dick, the Insurance Man, the Old Country, an Englishman Abroad, a Question of Attributionby Alan BennettISBN 0571194427 (0-571-19442-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Alan Bennett Plays One: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoyby Alan BennettISBN 057117745X (0-571-17745-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Enjoyby Alan BennettISBN 0571117341 (0-571-11734-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Forty Years Onby Alan BennettISBN 0571090974 (0-571-09097-4)
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Forty Years on ; Getting on ; Habeas Corpus ; And, Enjoyby Alan BennettISBN 0571162843 (0-571-16284-3)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Getting Onby Alan BennettISBN 0571099416 (0-571-09941-6)
Softcover, Faber
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Habeas Corpus: A Play in Two Actsby Alan BennettISBN 0571105092 (0-571-10509-2)
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Lady in the Vanby Alan BennettISBN 0571204716 (0-571-20471-6)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady in the Van'Book summary:Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Alan Bennett's driveway from the early1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if he tried, but his poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to his best fictional screen writing.
Bennett concedes that "One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation", but as the plastic bags build up, the years pass by and Miss Shepherd moves into Bennett's driveway, a relationship is established which defines a certain moment in late 20th-century London life which has probably gone forever. The dissenting, liberal, middle-class world of Bennett and his peers comes into hilarious but also telling collision with the world of Miss Shepherd: "there was a gap between our social position and our social obligations. It was in this gap that Miss Shepherd (in her van) was able to live".
Bennett recounts Miss Shepherd's bizarre escapades in his inimitable style, from her letter to the Argentinean Embassy at the height of the Falklands War, to her attempts to stand for Parliament and wangle an electric wheelchair out of the Social Services. Beautifully observed, The Lady in the Van is as notable for Bennett's attempts to uncover the enigmatic history of Miss Shepherd, as it is for its amusing account of her eccentric escapades. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Madness of George IIIby Alan BennettISBN 0571167497 (0-571-16749-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Old Countryby Alan BennettISBN 0571112420 (0-571-11242-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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Prick Up Your Ears: The Screenplayby Alan BennettISBN 0571147526 (0-571-14752-6)
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A Private Functionby Alan BennettISBN 0571135714 (0-571-13571-4)
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Single Spies: A Double Billby Alan BennettISBN 0571141056 (0-571-14105-6)
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Two Kafka Plays: Kafka's Dick and the Insurance Manby Alan BennettISBN 0571147275 (0-571-14727-5)
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, Alan BennettISBN 0571190480 (0-571-19048-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Writing Homeby Alan BennettISBN 0571173888 (0-571-17388-8)
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