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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780374280963
ISBN: 0374280967
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Sales Rank: 7001
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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From the author of The History Boys and The Clothes They Stood Up In
A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who frequents the library, Bennett describes the Queen’s transformation as she discovers the liberating pleasures of the written word. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England’s best loved author revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader’s life.
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A slim volume, this book has lingered in my memory since I first devoured it in London this spring. The subversive power of the written word has rarely been as fancifully and effectively communicated as in this tale of Queen Elizabeth stumbling across a portable library in the grounds of Buckingham Palace while in pursuit of an errant corgi. The monarch is transformed into an avid reader, flummoxing her subjects, her government ministers, her family and her courtiers. Bennett captures the "voice" ... Read More
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If you need some brightening up at the end of a dull day, then this is the book to pick up. It's deliciously entertaining and great fun and will take you no more than a couple of hours to read.
'It was the dogs' fault.' The Queen's corgis, sensing an imposter in their garden, go racing around the terrace barking away at what turns out to be the City of Westminster mobile library. The Queen feels compelled to take out a book, choosing an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, and from here the Queen's ... Read More
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In its own little way Alan Bennett's novella about what might happen if Queen Elizabeth II were to become an avid reader is almost a perfect entertainment. Not much happens in it until the very end, but the pleasure of the work is in how Bennett takes us to his comic denouement very cleverly and unobtrusively. This is really a book meant as a bonbon for people who are themselves great readers, and (particularly) readers of very intelligent (mostly British) novels (the queen's first escapade as a reader ... Read More
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One of the best books I've read in a long time. The only negative is that it's too short. I wanted it never to end. It was a treat.
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Short novella about how the Queen of England becomes sensitive and human after she unexpectedly becomes an avid reader. This has her staff scrambling to find a way to stop her new obsession so she can get back to her normal duties. Cute story, though the writing is a bit dry and repetitive, with hardly any dialogue. Would have been better served as a short story.
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