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The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns - Penguin Modern Classics
Arnold Bennett
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns - Penguin Modern Classics
Arnold Bennett
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.'
256 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 28, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9780241255544 |
Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 198 × 132 × 17 mm · 194 g |
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