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

Bennett, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241255546 ISBN 13: 9780241255544

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

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.'

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241255546
• ISBN 13: 9780241255544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256