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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Category: Classic
Anna, a woman of reserve and integrity, lives with her tyrannical and selfish father. Courted for her money by the handsome and successful Henry Mynors, Anna defies her father's wrath--with tragic results. Set in the Potteries against a background of dour Wesleyan Methodism, Anna of the Five Towns is a ...Show more
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Category: Fiction
Anna and her half-sister Agnes grow up unloved by their strict father, Ephraim Tellwright, a wealthy miser and a rigid Methodist. Anna dutifully allows her father to manage her inheritance, a fortune that attracts a marriage proposal from Henry Mynors, a religion teacher with business acumen. The engage ...Show more
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Category: Classic Fiction
Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel temper. His daughter, Anna, is used to the life of strict, thrifty order imposed by her father. But when she comes of age, Anna inherits a small fortune and attracts the attentions ...Show more
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of incoherent ambition, Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the t ...Show more
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - The Complete Original Edition by Arnold Bennett
Category: BUSINESS
Learn to use your most precious commodity--time--to truly live. Arnold Bennet's classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since it was first published in 1910. In the intervening century surprisingly little has changed--we still struggl ...Show more
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes (Dodo Press) by Arnold Bennett
Category: Classic Fiction
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British novelist. He was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. At age 21 he went to London as a solicitor's clerk. He won a literary competition in Tit Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. ...Show more
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Category: Classics
In the "great metropolitan industrial district" of East London, Riceyman Steps lead from King's Cross Road to Riceyman Square. Here in this busy neighborhood, Henry Earlforward, the proprietor of a secondhand bookstore, takes a keen interest in Violet Arb, the widowed owner of a nearby confectionary sho ...Show more
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness becomes a fatal illness and Bennett gives a terrifying description of its ravages. But the book's horrible situation is saved through the charac ...Show more
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pie ...Show more