| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1846681332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84668-049-6 |
| No of pages | 124 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Faber |
| Published Date | 03 Jul 2008 |
About Author
Related Books
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1846681332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84668-049-6 |
| No of pages | 124 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Faber |
| Published Date | 03 Jul 2008 |
Alan Bennett is an English author and Tony Award-winning playwright. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor. Bennett's lugubrious yet expressive voice (which still bears a slight Leeds accent) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his own work (especially his autobiographical writing) very popular. His readings of the Winnie the Pooh stories are also widely enjoyed.
© 2024 Dharya Information Private Limited
<p><i>'Oh Norman,' said the Queen, 'the prime minister doesn't seem to have read any Hardy. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out.' </i></p><p>Had the dogs not taken exception to the strange van parked in the royal grounds, the Queen might never have learnt of the Westminster travelling library's weekly visits to the palace.
But finding herself at its steps, she goes up to apologies for all the yapping and ends up taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, last borrowed in 1989. Duff read though it proves to be, upbringing demands she finish it and, so as not to appear rude, she withdraws another. This second, more fortunate choice of book awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer.
And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brooker to Proust to Samuel Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close. </p><p><b>Subversive and highly enjoyable, <i>The Uncommon Reader </i>offers the perfect argument for reading, written by one of its great champions, Alan Bennett.</b></p>