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Cover of The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

โœ 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

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โœฆ 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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