Arnold Bennett

Broschiertes Buch

Denry The Audacious

Beschreibung

A comic yet knowing snapshot of small-town ambition in Edwardian Britain, Denry The Audacious invites you to meet a man who barters charm for change and reshapes a social landscape with audacity and wit. This is more than a novel: it is a lucid social comedy that traces ambition and social climbing through everyday gestures, witty sketches, and keen-eyed portraits of middle-class aspiration. Bennett's edge-clear, humane, and sly-draws a vivid map of Edwardian Britain where status, manners, and aspiration collide in rooms, clubs, and parlours. The result is accessible yet morally attentive, blending social realism with a Thackeray-esque satire that is at once affectionate and unsparing. For readers and students of British literature alike, the book works as both story and social document, offering insight into a world just before upheaval, and the enduring pull of character over circumstance. Historically, the title sits alongside a lineage of Savile-era satire and Edwardian social portraiture, signalling Bennett's place in a tradition that shaped modern British fiction. Alpha Editions brings this classic back with care for today's readers and for future generations. It is not merely a reprint; it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, revived for casual readers and for classic-literature collectors who value the quiet drama of social life, the rhythms of British readers, and the enduring craft of a social satire master.

Autor

Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867, in Hanley, Staffordshire, which is now part of Stoke-on-Trent but was previously a separate municipality. He was the eldest of three boys and three daughters born to Enoch Bennett (1843-1902) and Sarah Ann, nee Longson (1840-1914). Enoch Bennett's early career was marked by ups and downs: following an unsuccessful attempt to start a pottery manufacturing and sales firm, he established himself as a draper and pawnbroker in 1866. Four years later, Enoch's father died, leaving him some money with which he apprenticed at a local legal business; in 1876, he became a solicitor. The Bennetts were strong Wesleyans who enjoyed music, culture, and socializing. Bennett attended the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem from 1877 to 1882, and then attended a grammar school in Newcastle-under-Lyme for one year. He was good at Latin and better at French; he had an inspirational headmaster who instilled in him a lifelong love of French literature and the French language. He excelled intellectually and passed Cambridge University exams, which may have led to an Oxbridge degree, but his father had other ideas. Bennett left school in 1883 at the age of 16 and began unpaid work at his father's business. He split his time between unpleasant occupations, such as rent collection, during the day and preparing for exams in the evening.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9789354756481
• ISBN-10: 9354756484
• Artikelnr.: 62207331