Untold Stories - Softcover

"Surprising, funny, and deeply affecting . . . [Alan Bennett] is a prose stylist of disarming grace and sly humor." --The New York Times Book Review

"Untold Stories is intelligent, educated, engaging, humane, self-aware, cantankerous, and irresistibly funny. You want it to go on forever." --The Sunday Times (London)

"Painfully intimate, stoically comic . . . Bennett's deadpan, self-deprecating humor translates perfectly." --David Gates, O, The Oprah Magazine

"A great achievement and a book of lasting value." --The Guardian (U.K.)

"A masterpiece of reminiscence. There is probably no other distinguished English man of letters more instantly likable than Bennett." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

"It is a glaring example of modern English frivolity that [Bennett] is not simply regarded--with awe and terror--as one of the greatest living English writers. . . . If you want to understand the cultural wars in England now, and if you want to come to grips with a great writer and a challenging mind, then Bennett is your man." --The Nation

"While he plays the old crank who is put upon by the world as it is, Bennett reveals an eye for detail and a feel for the complexity of human interactions." --Publishers Weekly

"[Bennett] is a fine storyteller. . . . His memories of fellow actors Peter Cook and Dudly Moore are wry, witty, and honest." --Library Journal

An instant bestseller in the U.K., Untold Stories brings together the finest and funniest writing by one of England's best-known literary figures. In his first major collection since Writing Home, Alan Bennett opens with a poignant memoir of growing up in Leeds and closes with an account of his cancer diagnosis and recovery, with everything from his much-celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews in between.