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The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Bennett, Arnold

 
9780241255544: The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241255546 ISBN 13: 9780241255544
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

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-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was one of the most versatile, ambitious and successful British novelists of the early 20th century. His novels and short stories both celebrate and deplore a rapidly changing Britain. Much of his greatest work is set where he grew up, in the Potteries of the West Midlands. Inspired by Zola and Maupassant, he realized that this world of brutal industrial work and rapid social change, religious severity and material temptation, was the perfect backdrop for everything from comedy to tragedy. He died of typhoid.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241255546
ISBN 13 
9780241255544
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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