by Arnold Bennett · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262241
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«Anna of the Five Towns» is the classic novel by Arnold Bennett, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Set in the Potteries at the end of the nineteenth century, it follows Anna, a young woman dominated by her miserly father and caught between Methodism and social conventions. Two suitors court her for her money, and her struggle for freedom and independence clashes with the economic and moral pressures of provincial life.
The work belongs to Arnold Bennett's «The Five Towns» series. Originally published in 1902, this 1994 edition is complete and unabridged.
Intended for readers of British classics and period fiction set in Victorian England.
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.
