Genres NovellaFictionBooks About BooksContemporary. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England’s best-loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader’s life.

In this wonderful novella, Alan Bennett (Beyond the Fringe, Talking Heads, and the majority of since late, The History Kids), examines browsing, making up, and their influence on our lives as he develops this ingenious and warmly smart scenario. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. First published 2006 in the London Review of Books, first published 2007 in book form, this copy is the first printing of this Jubilee edition, published 2012, with '1' as the lowest number in print number line on copyright page. Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Audiobook Free Online. From one of Englands most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. Front cover blurb: 'A masterpiece of comic brevity'.

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'.

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. From rear cover: 'Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster travelling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. A look at Queen Elizabeth II's fascination with books.

Bennett the uncommon reader