Clayhanger: 1 - Brossura

Bennett, Arnold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755115899 ISBN 13: 9780755115891

Casa editrice: House of Stratus Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

In this, the first volume of an ambitious trilogy designed to trace the parallel lives of a man and woman from youth to marriage and from marriage to old age, Bennett introduces the character of Edwin Clayhanger. A sober portrait of a boy growing up under a tyrannical father contrasts with young Edwin’s glimpses of the mysterious and tantalizing Hilda Lessways. As the lives of these two characters unfold before us, Bennett uses autobiographical detail to beautifully depict the constraints and spiritual adventures of young life in the Potteries.

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Recensione:

Bennett writes magnificently of the little movements of the spirit in its daily routine --Margaret Drabble

L'autore:

Enoch Arnold Bennett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Hanley, which is in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. He was initially employed by his father, a solicitor, and at age twenty-one moved to London, initially to again work as a solicitor’s clerk. However, he soon turned to writing popular serial fiction and editing a women’s magazine. After publication of many articles and stories in serial form, his first novel A Man From the North was published in 1898. This novel was received with critical acclaim and Bennett became a full-time professional writer and moved to Paris where he became a man of cosmopolitan and discerning tastes. During the First World War, Arnold Bennett became director of propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information at the behest of Lord Beaverbrook, whose experiences during the First World War were to later inspire Bennett to write the novel Lord Raingo. At the end of the war, he was offered a knighthood, but refused it.

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• Editore: House of Stratus Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755115899
• ISBN 13: 9780755115891
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 454