Riceyman Steps

Arnold Bennett

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Penguin
14 November 2016

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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 nightmarish world of the bookseller transforms the story.

Bennett wished in Riceyman Steps to create an English novel as powerful as anything by Balzac, the writer he most admired, with the same sense of great human issues being played out within the confines of a household.

The result is an unforgettable work which is also a gripping description of the harsh, battered London of the period just after the First World War.

By: Arnold Bennett
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9780241255797
ISBN 10: 0241255791
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 14 November 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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Riceyman Steps

Arnold Bennett

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