The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

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Book name:	The Uncommon Reader (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	Alan Bennett
Pages:	120 pages
ISBN13:	0374280967
ISBN:	0374280967
Language:	English
Publication data:	Sept. 18, 2007, 7 a.m.

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week her choice proves more enjoyable and 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 Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close.

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Alan Bennett

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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 t… Read more