A Commonplace Book
by Alec Guinness
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When Sir Alec Guinness died in August 2000 at the age of 86, he left behind two exercise books filled with entries in his small, beautiful handwriting, together with a typed-up Introduction that suggests he planned to have the books published or broadcast in some way. Together they make up this commonplace book.Tags
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A curious read. I enjoyed and appreciated that the editors opted to preserve the disordered format of the original Commonplace Book. I felt it easier to relate to the work, as, like many, I tend to make seemingly random notes an anecdotes too.
Certainly the thoughts of the author are more telling and easily the highlights of the book, though some of the sources he quotes from do provided open doorways to further reading.
Certainly the thoughts of the author are more telling and easily the highlights of the book, though some of the sources he quotes from do provided open doorways to further reading.
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 792.028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Acting and Performance History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- PN6245 .G85 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Literary extracts. Commonplace books
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- English
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