Helen with the High Hand (Pocket classics) - Softcover

Bennett, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862990769 ISBN 13: 9780862990763

Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

It is difficult to say who is the more delightful in this charming domestic comedy: James Ollerenshaw or high handed Helen who arrives to disturb his miserly, measured existence. When Helen Rathbone met her estranged step-uncle James on a park bench in one of the Five Towns, no citizen of this provincial manufacturing region could have guessed what a turn events would take, least of all the two protagonists. Helen was quite convinced she could change James for the better, whilst he was equally determined that she should not. From that moment their lives were inextricably bound together and would affect many more inside and outside their circle

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About the Author:

Arnold Bennett is famous for his realistic novels about the Five Towns - the 'Five Towns' being the pottery towns of his youth. His virtuosity as a writer was his manner of depicting simple things and ordinary people in an intriguing way for the readers. He has a warm and kind understanding for his characters, particularly when describing the intricate details of their dreary routine lives. (Enoch) Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in 1867. Arnold followed his father into the legal profession but at the age of 21, he decided to leave his father's firm and moved to London and worked as a solicitor's clerk. He won a literary competition in ""Tit Bits"" magazine in 1889 and in 1893 became assistant editor of the journal, Woman. He published his first essentially autobiographical novel The Man from the North in 1898. His best work is contained in his novels of the 'Five Towns' which include Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910), The Card (1911), Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1916). During the First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1926, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0862990769
• ISBN 13: 9780862990763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224