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Bennett writes magnificently of the little movements of the spirit in its daily routine --Margaret Drabble
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Arnold Bennett is famous for his realistic novels about the Five Towns - the 'Five Towns' being the pottery towns of his youth. His virtuosity as a writer was his manner of depicting simple things and ordinary people in an intriguing way for the readers. He has a warm and kind understanding for his characters, particularly when describing the intricate details of their dreary routine lives. (Enoch) Arnold Bennett was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, in 1867. Arnold followed his father into the legal profession but at the age of 21, he decided to leave his father's firm and moved to London and worked as a solicitor's clerk. He won a literary competition in ""Tit Bits"" magazine in 1889 and in 1893 became assistant editor of the journal, Woman. He published his first essentially autobiographical novel The Man from the North in 1898. His best work is contained in his novels of the 'Five Towns' which include Anna of the Five Towns (1902), The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger (1910), The Card (1911), Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1916). During the First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1926, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.
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This book is the crowning achievement of one of the most under-rated writers in the English language. The characterisation, the pain and the sheer intuitive understanding of the human condition combine to make this truly a masterpiece. Snobs may look on Bennett as 'middle-brow' or dated; this book proves he is no such thing. Finer than Old Wives Tales, it entrenches the realist style he learned from France (Zola,Flaubert etc) within a setting that brought out his best; the potteries. And throughout you find the eye for detail, the joy in the 'interestingness of existence' (his own phrase). Rediscover this forgotten gem.
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As a former print worker in the old fashioned days I found his descriptions of the print trade interesting but as well as giving graphic descriptions of the potteries he also brings his characters to life. I set about reading all Arnold Bennett's books but I only found this one a great read.
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The story of a man from leaving school to middle age, set in an industrial town in the English midlands at the end of the 19th century. Sounds boring, but it isn't. Slow for the first few chapters, but then I found it unputdownable, you really get interested and want to know what happens. Lots of description of the environment of the time. No sex or violence, written not long after these actual times, so some bits of old fashioned prose. This aside, reminded me of Len Deighton's style of writing. I was a bit doubtful about buying this book, but I'm pleased I did.
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Straight into another lifetime.
The whole trilogy is an real and often uncomfortable reminder of human behaviour, ouch! So readable, so 'I've been there'.
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A must read for Stokies!
I've read this book several times as it's set in my area and I recognise all the places
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The young life of Edwin Clayhanger and his difficult relationship with his widowed father, a self-made printer in the Potteries, is... Read more
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CLAYHANGER REVISITED
I first read Clayhanger whilst at school studying for GCE in the mid 1950s. So it was interesting to re-read this Arnold Bennett book, the first of a series set around the Pottery... Read more
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An amusing sketch of a self-absorbed, indecisive but basically...
I felt like he was writing about me. This was my first Arnold Bennett, and I'm going to have to read more now - particularly since I'll need to read "Hilda Lessways" to get the... Read more
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Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways
This and Hilda Lessways are a uniquely ambitious project in English fiction. Two large-scale and fully worked novels, each of which aims to transform our understanding of life as... Read more
Published 5 months ago by T. D. Johnstone
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This is a remarkable book, detailing the growing of Edwin Clayhanger from boyhood to adult in the world of the 1800s Potteries, and most especially, the conflict between hopes and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Auntie Sue
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I too read this book for my English Literature 'o' level many years ago. At the time I found it rather hard going in places but in the end I was glad I had a chance to read it. Read more
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This was a cracker. Wonderful portrayal of life in the area and of the generation gap.
Powerfully and sympathetically written.
Powerfully and sympathetically written.
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this was one of my books for my 'o' level english lit. in 1963.i found it very hard going at the time but enjoyed it the more second time round. Read more
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