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| Genre/Form: | Humorous fiction Belletristische Darstellung Fiction |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain; Königin II ) Elisabeth (Großbritannien |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Bennett |
| ISBN: | 9780374280963 0374280967 9781846680496 1846680492 |
| OCLC Number: | 163582083 |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2008. Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2008. |
| Description: | 120 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | "When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovereing the joy of reading widely (from J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch." From the bookjacket. |
| Responsibility: | Alan Bennett. |
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Abstract:
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers.
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"Alan Bennett, with his combination of pitiless observation and gentle understatement, is perhaps the best-loved of English writers alive today." Sunday Telegraph"
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- Elizabeth -- II, -- Queen of Great Britain, -- 1926- -- Fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
- Queens -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Books and reading -- Fiction.
- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Elisabeth (Großbritannien, Königin, II.)
- Bediensteter.
- Bekannter.
- Entdeckung.
- Leseinteresse.
- Humorous fiction.
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