Dirk Bogarde

A Note on the Sources My principal sources have been my notebooks, diaries and letters written to my parents, during the period 1941-1947. I have also drawn on a daily journal which I have kept from 1950 to the present day, as well as scrap-books, many personal letters, and in particular a...

CHAPTER 1 Helen came into the breakfast-room that morning in her familiar way. i was pretty well used to it: dressing-gown, frill of nightdress below, hair pulled back roughly and secured with an elastic band, slippers which she had long since trodden down at heel. She carried a tray with a jar...

A védőborító szélei töredezettek. In his outstanding first volume of autobiography, A Postillion Struck by Lightning, Dirk Bogarde retraced his childhood and early experiences on the stage. In Snakes and Ladders, he continues his memoirs, from the trials of army training camp to the greatest...

Gerince megtört, a könyvtest ép. A collection of Bogarde's writings from the last eight years, with pieces on fellow actors and directors, reminiscences of the French Riviera, a satirical piece on London dinner parties, reviews of books about the Holocaust and more.