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The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Arnold Bennett

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The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories | Arnold Bennett
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Book Overview: 

Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . the fact that it is a fine thing to be well-dressed and to have loose gold in your pocket, and to eat, drink, and smoke well; and to be among crowds of people who are well-dressed and have loose gold in their pockets, and eat and drink and smoke well; and to know that a magnificent woman will be waiting for you at a certain place at a certain hour, and that upon catching sight of you her dark orbs will take on an enchanting expression reserved for you alone, and that she is utterly yours. In a word, he looked on the bright side of things again. It could not ultimately matter a bilberry whether his marriage was public or private.

He lit a cigarette gaily. He could not guess that untoward destiny was waiting for him close by the newspaper kiosque.

A little girl was leaning against the palisade there, and gazing somewhat restlessly about her. A quite little girl, aged, perhaps, eleven, dressed in blue serge, with a short frock and long legs, and a sailor ha. . . Read More

Community Reviews

5.00
- Griselda - May 31, 2021

The shorter tales are strongly reminiscent of Guy de Maupassant's Contes and are forerunners of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.

4.00
- Liedzeit - Jun 03, 2018

As everyone knows there is no greater accomplishment in reading than reading collections of short stories.
With novels you can let your mind go wandering and you do not loose much. With a short story, you have to pay attention all the time or you missing the point. And, of course, not many short stor

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