by Arnold Bennett · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140038873
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«Hilda Lessways» is the novel by Arnold Bennett, second instalment of the Clayhanger series, published by Penguin in paperback (327 pages, in English).
Hilda Lessways follows its protagonist into adulthood, from Bursley, where she works as a shorthand typist, to London and Brighton, where she runs boarding houses. The story of the first instalment of the Clayhanger series is retold from her perspective, with attention to her personal relationships and to Edwin Clayhanger.
Hilda Lessways is the second instalment of the Clayhanger series, originally published in 1911; this Penguin edition is from 1975.
For readers of classic English novels and early 20th-century literary fiction, especially those seeking provincial sagas with a female voice.
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.
