The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Arnold Bennett
- Book ID
- 110785350
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Series
- Five Towns
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781634214933
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Author Arnold Bennett spent his early life in the Potteries district of England, an area known for its cluster of ceramics manufacturing facilities. In this charming volume of short stories, Bennett offers readers a glimpse into the lives, loves, and misadventures of the residents of the fictionalized version of the region that he christened the "Five Towns."
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