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The Regent
Arnold Bennett
Book Overview:
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.
Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and that he has lost his touch as the entrepreneur and entertainer of the 'Five Towns'.
In fact, as he says to himself 'What I want is change - and a lot of it too!'. A chance meeting at the local theatre leads to his going to London and then...
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.
Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and that he has lost his touch as the entrepreneur and entertainer of the 'Five Towns'.
In fact, as he says to himself 'What I want is change - and a lot of it too!'. A chance meeting at the local theatre leads to his going to London and then...
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He said to himself:
"Dashed if I don't write to her every day!"
He leaned out of the window as the train rolled away and waved and smiled to her, not concealing his sentiments now; nor did she conceal hers as she replied with exquisite pantomime to his signals. But if the train had not been rapidly and infallibly separating them the reconciliation could scarcely have been thus open. If for some reason the train had backed into the station and ejected its passengers, those two would have covered up their feelings again in an instant. Such is human nature in the Five Towns.
When Edward Henry withdrew his head into the compartment Brindley and Mr. Garvin, the latter standing at the corridor door, observed that his spirits had shot up in the most astonishing manner, and in their [62] blindness they attributed the phenomenon to Edward Henry's delight in a t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Leisurely read. I liked coming back to the book and checking out what Machin is up to.
It's not a book to spell-bind you, but an ongoing pleasant distraction for sure. Bennett's humor never fails to amuse.
The hero of The Card, Denry Machin, returns. He is 43 now beginning to loose his hair.
The book starts promising with a little accident in his house. The dog has bitten his eldest son. Mother insists on his calling a doctor. And so he does. Because he meets him in a dancehall he has fled to.
The mai
A view of the privileged classes of Stoke-on-Trent during Victorian Times.
The first few chapters of this made me think I was in for another total joy like 'The Card', the story of Edward Henry's earlier life, but once he'd gone to London and got amongst the theatre crowd then it began to tail off a little. He really belongs in The Five Towns, as he himself acknowledges.