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The Roll-Call

Arnold Bennett

Book Overview: 

"The Roll-Call" is the sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy. This book concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George Edwin Cannon (he quickly dropped the surname Clayhanger), is an architect, in many ways representing the ambitions held by his stepfather, Edwin. However, he possesses an arrogance endowed by family wealth and Bennett examines with some aplomb the difficulty of bringing up children without spoiling them. George eventually joins the army and this is a fitting finale to this fine series.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .entirely dependent—even to cigarette money—upon the benevolence of a couple of old individuals a hundred and fifty miles off, he reckoned that he was advancing in the world. The Intermediate Examination was past, and already he felt that he had come to grips with the Final and would emerge victorious. He felt too that his general knowledge and the force and variety of his ideas were increasing. At times, when he and Marguerite talked, he was convinced that both of them had achieved absolute knowledge, and that their criticisms of the world were and would always be unanswerable. After the Final, he hoped, his uncle would buy him a share in the Lucas & Enwright practice. In due season, his engagement would be revealed, and all would be immensely impressed by his self-restraint and his good taste, and the marriage would occur, and he would be a London architect, an established man—at the . . . Read More

Community Reviews

A worthy sequel to The Clayhanger Trilogy..although it can be read as a stand alone novel. I wish it had pursued George a bit further into his life and wonder if this was ever a possibility. A masterly description at the end of the discomfort of the soldiers, as good as any I have read in other nove

My least favorite of Arnold Bennett’s books. I dearly love all the rest; perhaps it was the way it ended that I didn’t love.

A fitting sequel to one of my favourite sequences of novels. George is a bit more complex (and sympathetic) than some of the 'spoilt young man' commentary you see knocking about the place. There's a good dash of brash Denny from The Card about him as well as doubt and shiftlessness worked out in lov