Alec Guinness
Alec GuinnessCommonplace book

Commonplace book

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commonplace book

About Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). He is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor..

Books

Alec Guinness-A Positively Final Appearance

A Positively Final Appearance

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Alec Guinness-positively final appearance

Positively final appearance

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Alec Guinness-A Positively Final Appearance

A Positively Final Appearance

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Alec Guinness-My name escapes me

My name escapes me

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Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

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Alec Guinness-Blessings in Disguise (Penguin Audiobooks)

Blessings in Disguise (Penguin Audiobooks)

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Alec Guinness-My Name Escapes Me

My Name Escapes Me

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Alec Guinness-Me moires

Me moires

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Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

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Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise.

Blessings in disguise.

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Alec Guinness-Blessings in disguise

Blessings in disguise

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Reviews

You cannot help but like this book. Reading it is like having a beer with an old man who knows some good stories, has a decent attitude about life & it's problems, and never gets drunk.
For sophisticated readers only, and a necessity for those addicted to Shakespeare and/or Alec Guinness. Entries, in the order Sir Alec set them down, are hilariously funny (see page 123, "A radio conversation .
'A commonplace book' is actually a published notebook kept by Alec Guinness before his death. He scribbled poems and verses that caught his attention (a lot of Shakespeare and Rudyard Kipling) - these didn't interest me much since I am a philistine when it comes to poetry.
In these notebooks, published after his death, Guinness jotted down many of his favorite quotations and anecdotes, along with his own random thoughts, ideas, observations, and even dreams. (Interestingly, he dreamed about Shakespeare's plays quite often.
A curious read. I enjoyed and appreciated that the editors opted to preserve the disordered format of the original Commonplace Book.

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