The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (Penguin Modern Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0241255546

ISBN-13:

9780241255544

Author(s): Bennett., Arnold
Edition: First Edition
Released: Aug 23, 2016
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
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Description:

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.'

























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