Bøker av Arnold Bennett

The book, The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Old Wives Tale deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother''s draper''s shop, through the period of separation and quite different lives, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Paris and Burslem, a town in the Potteries district of North Staffordshire.

A middle-aged bookshop proprietor marries a widowed shopkeeper but their chance for late-in-life happiness is threatened by his obsessive miserliness. Winner of the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.