The Uncommon Reader
Literatur/Ab 10. Schuljahr - Textband mit Annotationen und Zusatztexten
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A novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering 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. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large.
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The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
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- Released
- 2014
- Binding
- (Paperback),
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- Title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Subtitle
- Literatur/Ab 10. Schuljahr - Textband mit Annotationen und Zusatztexten
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Bennett
- Publisher
- Cornelsen
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 3060334706
- ISBN13
- 9783060334704
- Series
- Tags
- Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, Friendship, British Literature, England, Great Britain, Berlin, Comedies, English Literature, Novellas, London, Hamburg, Bavaria, 21st Century, Satire, High School, Saxony, About Books, Writers, Reading, Queens, For Advanced, Libraries, Kingdom
- Description
- A novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading. When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering 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. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large.