Riceyman Steps
$38.06
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2016
Summary
Arnold Bennett’s superb London novel - both a story about one grim household and a panorama of the life of a great city.
Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness becomes a fatal illness and Bennett gives a terrifying description of its ravages. But the book’s horrible situation is saved through the character of Elsie - whose life-affirming refusal to engage with the n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241255797 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241255791 |
| Author: | Arnold Bennett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was one of the most versatile, ambitious and successful British novelists of the early 20th century. His novels and short stories both celebrate and deplore a rapidly changing Britain. Much of his greatest work is set where he grew up, in the Potteries of the West Midlands. Inspired by Zola and Maupassant, he realized that this world of brutal industrial work and rapid social change, religious severity and material temptation, was the perfect backdrop for everything from comedy to tragedy. He died of typhoid.
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