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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes (Dodo Press) by Arnold Bennett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly buys the chef, the kitchen and the whole hotel. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella disc ...Show more
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Black Classics Ser.
Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are re ...Show more
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