Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett - 2007-01-30

London: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1990. First edition thus. . paperback. Very Good. Book is clean and tight.

Paperback. Acceptable.

House of Stratus, 2009-04-03. Paperback. New.

House of Stratus, 2009-04-03. Paperback. Like New.

The Library Press, 1111. Hardcover. Good. 321 pages. No dust jacket. Marbled brown cloth with gilt decorations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Previous owner's inscriptions to title page. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Binding remains firm.

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931

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The Library Press, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Minerva Edition. 321 pages. No dust jacket. Brown boards. Minimal tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Pages have a distinct odour. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards.

IDB Productions, 2016-01-01. MP3 CD. New. This item is a brand new factory sealed MP3 disc supplied in a DVD case

MP3 Audio CD. Simple things and everyday characters depicted in an extraordinary way ? these are the features that made Arnold Bennett?s works so popular when they were first published in the 19th century, and these are the features that make them popular in our times as well. Tales of Five Towns is no exception ? the plots are centered on the inhabitants of the five towns known as the Potteries in Staffordshire, area that Bennett knew so well because he was born in one of these towns. The main characters in the stories are everyday people, but there is something strange or weird about each of them that makes them suitable plot generators and protagonists. The stories are told in a charming, witty and poignant style ? it is actually more the storytelling and not so much the characters that takes in the readers, prompting them to read on and on. Bennett has an excellent eye for the absurdity of human behavior and never fails to make his point, commenting on his characters and the events he gets them… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Tales of the Five Towns PART I AT HOME HIS WORSHIP THE GOOSEDRIVER I It was an amiable but deceitful afternoon in the third week of December. Snow fell heavily in the windows of confectioners' shops, and Father Christmas smiled in Keats's Bazaar the fawning smile of a myth who knows himself to be exploded; but beyond these and similar efforts to remedy the forgetfulness of a careless climate, there was no sign anywhere in the Five Towns, and especially in Bursley, of the immediate approach of the season of peace, goodwill, and gluttony on earth. At the Tiger, next door to Keats's in the market-place, Mr. Josiah Topham Curtenty had put down his glass (the port was kept specially for him), and told his boon companion, Mr. Gordon, that he must be going. These two men had one powerful sentiment in common: they loved the same woman. Mr. Curtenty, aged twenty-six in heart, thirty-six in mind, and forty-six in looks, was fifty-six only in years. He was a rich man; he had made money as… Read More