The Card

A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

Arnold Bennett author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:28th Jul '16

£9.99

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The Card cover

Set in Arnold Bennett's smoky, vividly realized world of the 'Five Towns' of industrial England, The Card is the joyful tall story of a rogue whose every bad deed turns to gold.

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

Set 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.'

ISBN: 9780241255544

Dimensions: 198mm x 132mm x 16mm

Weight: 193g

256 pages