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Denry the Audacious
Arnold Bennett
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"Look here, mother," he said, "I 'll lend you half a crown if you like."
Charity beamed on his face, and genuinely warmed his heart.
"But you must pay me something for the accommodation," he added. "I can't do it for nothing. You must pay me back next week and give me threepence. That's fair. I could n't bear to see you turned out of your house. Now, get your rent-book."
And he marked half a crown as paid in her greasy, dirty rent-book, and the same in his large book.
"Eh, you 're a queer 'un, Mester Machin!" murmured the old woman, as he left. He never knew precisely what she meant. Fifteenâtwenty years later in his career, her intonation of that phrase would recur to him and puzzle him.
On the following Monday everybody in Chapel Alley and Carpenter's Square seemed to know . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Edward Henry Machin, known as Denry Machin, is The Card of the title.
He's known as Denry because his mother realised she could save a certain amount of time each and every day by calling him Denry instead of Edward Henry.
The story is mostly set in The Five Towns apart from excursions to Llandudno a
It is many years since I first read The Card and it’s still as brilliantly enjoyable now. If ever there was a book which contradicted Mark Twain’s definition of a classic as something everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read, this should be it.
First published in 1911, this is the story o
The Card (1911) is a short, light and entertaining novel by Arnold Bennett. It's only the second book I have read by Arnold Bennett but I will certainly be reading more.
The first Bennet novel I read was the splendid Riceyman Steps (1923) which I recommend (see my review for more on that one).
Arnold
Bennett’s The Card is a light frolic following the rise to power and prominence of a local character whose schemes propel him into the hearts of the Five Towns. Characters like Denry Machin are no longer witty and charming in our political world, where “cards” like Trump and Johnson are elected and