Charlotte's Row

Bates, H. E.

ISBN 10: 0140087737 / ISBN 13: 9780140087734

Published by Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1987

Seller Inventory # U9780140087734

Synopsis:

Bates's third novel features a cast of characters in a shoemaking street very similar to that experienced by Bates in Rushden: a young boy modeled after Bates's father, Albert Bates, (who started out in the shoe business at the age of ten) and through whom much of the novel is seen; an idle and and drunken shoemaker; a gentle, book and nature-loving socialist shopkeeper; a passionate and idealistic young woman; a hypocritical Baptist baker (see Bates's bake-house memories in Vanished World 69-70); and several wives, either abused and shrewish. A series of episodes depict poverty, hunger, violence, death, and hopelessness and, in doing so, address religious and economic issues and contrast urban and rural life.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Charlotte's Row
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: 14688208
Signed: 7/16/2026 6:25:31 AM
Edition: 1784183131.