The Card

A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

von Arnold Bennett

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great manSet in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

• Reihe: Penguin Modern Classics
• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780241255544
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2016
• Größe: 198 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd