History Boys
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Alan Bennett
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Product details
- ISBN 9780571224647
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2004
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, with a beautiful typographic cover.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead.
As an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys pursue sex, sport and a place at university, adolescent anarchy and staffroom rivalry provoke insistent questions about history and education.
The History Boys premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2004, winning Evening Standard, Critics' Circle, Olivier and South Bank Awards. On Broadway, it received numerous awards, including six Tonys.
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. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George, and the film of his screenplay of The Lady in the Van starred Dame Maggie Smith. His work for the stage includes Forty Years On, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The Habit of Art and People. His collections of prose are Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography), Keeping On Keeping On and House Arrest. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Two Besides.
