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'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.'
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 apologise 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,…mehr

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'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.'

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 apologise 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 Brookner to Proust to Samuel Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close.

Subversive and highly enjoyable, The Uncommon Reader offers the perfect argument for reading, written by one of its great champions, Alan Bennett.
Autorenporträt
Alan Bennett, 1934 in Leeds geboren, hat in Oxford studiert und kurzzeitig auch unterrichtet. Anfang der 1960er Jahre trat er beim Edinburgh Festival auf; seitdem arbeitet er als Autor, Schauspieler und Regisseur für Theater, Radio, Film und Fernsehen.
In Großbritannien gilt er als einer der führenden Bühnen- und Drehbuchautoren, die von ihm geschriebenen TV-Serien, in einigen wirkte er auch selbst mit, mit ihren spitzzüngigen Dialogen haben längst Kult-Status erreicht. Er erhielt zahlreiche Preise und Ehrungen, u.a. für das Theaterstück und den darauf basierenden Film "The Madness of King George" (deutscher Titel: King George: Ein Königreich für mehr Verstand), für dessen Drehbuch er 1995 für den Oscar nominiert war. Bennetts wenige Erzählungen und seine Erinnerungen waren Bestseller
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An exquisitely produced jewel of a book ... [but] beneath the tasteful gilt-and-beige cover seethes a savagely Swiftian indignation against stupidity, Philistinism and arrogance in public places, and a passionate argument for the civilising power of art. Jane Shilling The Times