Anna of the Five Towns

Informationen zum Autor Arnold Bennett Klappentext 'Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life' Margaret DrabbleGrowing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free from the constraints upon her, even though she is torn between duty and her deepest feelings. Arnold's novel of parental tyranny and rebellion is a portrayal of a woman of great spirit, complexity and integrity. Zusammenfassung 'Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life' Margaret Drabble Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets, prayer meetings and small-minded bigotry, Anna is dominated by her miserly and tyrannical father. When she inherits a fortune and finds love, she struggles to break free from the constraints upon her, even though she is torn between duty and her deepest feelings. Arnold's novel of parental tyranny and rebellion is a portrayal of a woman of great spirit, complexity and integrity.

Product details

• Authors: Arnold Bennett, Frank Swinnerton
• Assisted by: Frank Swinnerton (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9780241255773
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25577-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary