In this collection of short stories, Arnold Bennett continues his examination of provincial mores with characteristic insight. Portraying the lives of various individuals, he examines their petty vices of deceit and treachery with contempt, and their faults of character with tolerance and humour. Any fan of the Five Towns series will find this a valuable addition to his or her collection. It Includes A Letter Home, Bennett's first short story.
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Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, Staffordshire. At twenty-one, he moved to London, initially to work as a solicitor's clerk, but he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a women's magazine. After the publication of his first novel, A Man From the North in 1898, he became a professional writer. He moved to Paris and became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. Bennett's great reputation is built upon the success of his novels and short stories set in the Potteries, an area of north Staffordshire that he recreated as the 'Five Towns'. Anna of the Five Towns and The Old Wives' Tale show the influence of Flaubert, Maupassant and Balzac as Bennett describes provincial life in great detail. Arnold Bennett is an important link between the English novel and European realism. He wrote several plays and lighter works such as The Grand Babylon Hotel and The Card.
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Ezra Brunt, Lionel Belmont, Eli Machin, Machin Street, Edward Beechinor, May Deane, Black Jack, Oldcastle Street, Miss Malpas, May Lawton, Mary Beechinor, Lionel Woolley, Town Hall, Knype Wakes, Toft End, Clive Timmis, Daft Jimmy, Inca of Peru, Turk's Head, Hungarian Rhapsody, Jos Curtenty, Eva Brunt, Gas Gordon, Miss Beechinor, Miss Lawton Browse Sample Pages:
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Ezra Brunt, Lionel Belmont, Eli Machin, Machin Street, Edward Beechinor, May Deane, Black Jack, Oldcastle Street, Miss Malpas, May Lawton, Mary Beechinor, Lionel Woolley, Town Hall, Knype Wakes, Toft End, Clive Timmis, Daft Jimmy, Inca of Peru, Turk's Head, Hungarian Rhapsody, Jos Curtenty, Eva Brunt, Gas Gordon, Miss Beechinor, Miss Lawton Browse Sample Pages:
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