“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