Hilda Lessways: 2 (Clayhanger) - Softcover

Bennett, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755115937 ISBN 13: 9780755115938

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2008

Synopsis

In the second volume of the trilogy, events in ‘Clayhanger’ are retold from the perspective of Hilda Lessways, who is embarking upon a relationship with George Cannon, a charismatic entrepreneur, whose success has taken him from the Five Towns to Brighton. A disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy result. Finally, however, she is reconciled with Edwin Clayhanger and one of Bennett’s most living heroines must face up to her conflicting emotions, and the reality of her hopes and tragedies.

About this title

Review:

Bennett writes magnificently of the little movements of the spirit in its daily routine --Margaret Drabble

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755115937
• ISBN 13: 9780755115938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282