The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett (English) Pap

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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.'

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One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great manSet 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.'

Author Biography

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.

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Set in Arnold Bennett's smoky, vividly realized world of the 'Five Towns' of industrial England, The Card is the joyful tall story of a rogue whose every bad deed turns to gold.

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Set in Arnold Bennett's smoky, vividly realized world of the 'Five Towns' of industrial England, The Card is the joyful tall story of a rogue whose every bad deed turns to gold.

Details ISBN0241255546 Author Arnold Bennett Pages 256 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Series Penguin Modern Classics Year 2016 ISBN-10 0241255546 ISBN-13 9780241255544 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-07-28 Media Book Subtitle A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1867 Death 1931 DEWEY 823.912 Imprint Penguin Classics Short Title The Card Language English UK Release Date 2016-07-28 Alternative 9780241255551 Audience General NZ Release Date 2016-09-18 AU Release Date 2016-09-18 We've got this

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