It was an amiable but deceitful afternoon in the third week of December. Snow fell heavily in the windows of confectioners’ shops, and Father Christmas smiled in Keats’s Bazaar the fawning smile of a myth who knows himself to be exploded; but beyond these and similar efforts to remedy the forgetfulness of a careless climate, there was no sign anywhere in the Five Towns, and especially in Bursley, of the immediate approach of the season of peace, goodwill, and gluttony on earth.
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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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Five Towns, Ezra Brunt, Lionel Belmont, Eli Machin, Edward Beechinor, Machin Street, May Deane, Oldcastle Street, Inca of Peru, May Lawton, Clive Timmis, Miss Beechinor, Black Jack, Lionel Woolley, Mary Beechinor, Miss Malpas, Hungarian Rhapsody, Knype Wakes, Town Hall, Daft Jimmy, Eva Brunt, Labour Church, Toft End, Turk's Head, Edward Norris New!
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Five Towns, Ezra Brunt, Lionel Belmont, Eli Machin, Edward Beechinor, Machin Street, May Deane, Oldcastle Street, Inca of Peru, May Lawton, Clive Timmis, Miss Beechinor, Black Jack, Lionel Woolley, Mary Beechinor, Miss Malpas, Hungarian Rhapsody, Knype Wakes, Town Hall, Daft Jimmy, Eva Brunt, Labour Church, Toft End, Turk's Head, Edward Norris New!
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