Well-Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives

by Angela Huth

Book Overview

A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield, John Thaw by Tom Courtenay and many more The eulogy is a literary form like no other: to compress a lifetime into minutes, to summon the person, what they meant to their friends, colleagues, and sometimes a wider context, to be moved to grief, laughter,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719564875
• ISBN13: 9780719564871
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 459 Pages