by Arnold Bennett · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140009972
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«Clayhanger» is the classic novel by Arnold Bennett, published by Penguin Books in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Set in the industrial Midlands of Victorian England, it narrates Edwin Clayhanger's coming of age: on leaving school, he takes over the family business and discovers love, while growing up under the shadow of an autocratic father. It portrays the weight of bourgeois respectability in Edwin's life.
First novel of the Clayhanger trilogy, included in The Five Towns series. The edition includes an introduction by Frank Swinnerton.
For fans of British classics and coming-of-age novels set in the Victorian era.
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.
