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
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
โ Scribed by Arnold Bennett
- Book ID
- 110784594
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781634214995
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โฆ Synopsis
British author Arnold Bennett returns to his native stomping grounds--the Potteries district of England's West Midlands region--with this collection of insightful, darkly witty stories about the denizens of the fictionalized "Five Towns." From love gone wrong to mischief and misadventure, these sharply drawn tales run the gamut.
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