Arnold Bennett Riceyman Steps (Paperback) Penguin Modern Classics (UK IMPORT)All Tariffs and Duties included - no additional charges
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Arnold Bennett Riceyman Steps (Paperback) Penguin Modern Classics (UK IMPORT). Further DetailsTitle: Riceyman Steps Condition: New Author: Arnold Bennett Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0241255791 EAN: 9780241255797 ISBN: 9780241255797 Publisher: Penguin Classics Genre: Fiction Release Date: 09/29/2016 Description: 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. Language: English Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 258g Series: Penguin Modern Classics Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
