by Arnold Bennett · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140180152
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«Anna of the Five Towns» is a classic novel by Arnold Bennett, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Set in the Potteries of Staffordshire at the end of the nineteenth century, the novel follows Anna, daughter of a miserly father, in an oppressive society. Upon inheriting a fortune, Anna tries to free herself from her father's dominance, rigid Methodism, and social conventions while facing interested suitors and a love her environment disapproves of.
Second installment of The Five Towns series. The novel was originally published in 1902.
For readers of classic English novels and literary fiction, with an interest in period social portraits and female protagonists who challenge their environment.
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
