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A Man from the North

Arnold Bennett

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. . . lodging the meanness of the room, of his clothes, of his supper, nauseated him. He dreamed that he was kissing the Ottoman girl, and that she lisped, "Nice boy," whereupon he cast a handful of sovereigns on her lap.

At six o'clock the next morning he was working at his article. In two days it was finished, and he had despatched it to a monthly magazine, "together with a stamped directed envelope for its return if unsuitable," in accordance with the editorial[Pg 39] instructions printed below the table of contents in every number. The editor of the "Trifler" promised that all manuscripts so submitted, and written on one side of the paper only, should be dealt with promptly.

He had been expecting to discuss his work with Mr. Aked at the proposed dinner, but this had not taken place. On the morning after the arrangement had been made, Mr. Aked fell ill, and in a few days he wrote to resign his post, saying that he had sufficient to live on, and felt . . . Read More

Community Reviews

I wanted to start with number one, in The Five Towns series, on audio. YouTube had the first few chapters and it was AI narration, surprisingly listenable. Then we have the option to go to Google Play for the rest of it. So I purchased it for .19 pence!!
Quite short, and not quite up to the enjoyment

Leído porque era el primer libro de los Five Towns de Arnold Bennett y sabía que me iba a leer el segundo así que... eso, que una es un poco completista*.

A Man From The North by Arnold Bennett in today’s terms might be described as “coming of age” novel. In fact, “coming from the age” would probably be a better label, because the book simply reeks of the era in which it was written, which was late Victorian England, when flesh did not show and emotio

I really enjoyed this youth novel: it's a bridge between a dying aesthetics and the birth of a new one, and also between a dying world and a new one about to emerge.
This makes it sound like what it isn't, though; it reads really well, the main character (Bennett?) is likeable, the wooing is that bri

A young man from the north comes to London to start a new life. That means finding a woman to love making a career a writer. I need not have been told that it is to a large extent autobiographical. We are at the end of the nineteenth century. It is a very simple plot, next to non-existing. Our young

Even though this book was published in 1898, it's painfully relatable and makes me wonder if all those self-help books are doing us a blind bit of good as a society, or if we're just all doomed to make the same mistakes, generation after generation.

Richard Larch is new to London and he loves life i

Two days ago Arnold Bennett was simply a vague name that I thought had something to do with literature but wasn't exactly sure in what capacity. I did a bit of research. Upon reading that his reputation had never recovered from the attack inflicted upon it by Virginia Woolf, and being not a fan of t

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