Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free fr
Tales of the Five Towns
โ Scribed by Arnold Bennett
- Book ID
- 110785496
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Series
- Five Towns
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781634214902
- ASIN
- B0084986CS
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โฆ Synopsis
British author Arnold Bennett's most acclaimed and enduring works are a series of novels set around the Potteries district of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, his native region. This volume of short stories delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns" that Bennett explores in novels like Anna of the Five Towns and Clayhanger.
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