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Barry Humphries

    John Barry Humphries è stato un comico, satirico e artista australiano, noto soprattutto per i suoi alter ego teatrali e televisivi, Dame Edna Everage e Sir Les Patterson. La sua opera è caratterizzata da un'acuta satira e da un umorismo dadaista, attraverso i quali commentava fenomeni sociali e culturali. Oltre a scrivere e recitare, si è dedicato anche alla pittura e al teatro, dimostrando la sua versatilità.

    The Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman
    Less Is More Please
    Punch Lines
    My Life as Me
    Women In The Background
    More Please. An Autobiography
    • My Life as Me

      A Memoir

      • 374pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Described by Barry Humphries as a cubist self-portrait, this autobiography revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this memoir, his various fascinations are explored: painting, travel, marriage and divorce, and his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others.

      My Life as Me2002
      3,5
    • Women In The Background

      A Novel

      • 355pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Barry Humphries's first novel. Mrs Petty is a famous housewife with a successful TV show. She is also Derek Pettyfer - fiftyish, cultured, set in his ways. His arrival at any party, however sophisticated, always provokes a discreet little frisson amongst the guests. But Derek is also lonely.

      Women In The Background1997
      3,0
    • Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished his biographers with half-truths and fiction, but now he has written his own account of his life. He tells of his schooldays, his Australian adolescence, his indiscretions, his renunciations and his appetites.

      More Please. An Autobiography1993
      4,5
    • Ik ben mij er eentje

      conférences

      • 225pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Teksten van conférences van hedendaagse Nederlandse cabaretiers.

      Ik ben mij er eentje1991
      3,7
    • Punch Lines

      150 Years of Humorous Writing in Punch

      • 372pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Doran, Amanda-Jane, Punchlines - 150 years of humorous writing in Punch. London, HarperCollins, 1991. 26cm. XII, 371 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes work by authors / comedians such as: John Bentjemen / Mary Dunn / Graham Greene / Melvyn bragg / Stevie Smith / William Boyd / Robert Graves / etc.

      Punch Lines1991
      2,7