Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card (3 Classics by Arnold Bennett)
By Arnold Bennett
Length40h 7m
About this audiobook
This carefully crafted ebook: "Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card (3 Classics by Arnold Bennett)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The hero of a novel Buried Alive is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet. The artist does not try to disabuse him. After the funeral , Priam Farll marries a widow and lives a happy life until the loss of his wife's money means he has to take up painting again. A connoisseur of art recognises his style but thinks the paintings are by an imposter. He makes a fortune by buying his works through a small dealer and selling them in America as genuine. Meanwhile Priam Farll refuses through his obstinate shyness to prove his own identity. The Old Wives Tale (1908), a novel set in part in the Potteries district of North Staffordshire, where Bennett grew up, is generally considered his single masterpiece. The Card is a short comic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley (a fictitious town based on Burslem). This is accomplished through luck, initiative and a fair bit of chutzpah (in slang a card is a 'character', an 'original'; a clever, audacious, person). Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer. After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist. He later turned to the writing of novels, including his most famous Clayhanger and Anna of the five towns.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length40 hrs 7 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card
30Chapter 6: The Widow
2Chapter 1: The Puce Dressing-gown
31Chapter 7: Bricks and Mortar
3Chapter 2: A Pail
32Chapter 8: The Proudest Mother
4Chapter 3: The Photograph
33Book iii: Sophia
5Chapter 4: A Scoop
34Chapter 1: The Elopement
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6Chapter 5: Alice on Hotels
35Chapter 2: Supper
7Chapter 6: A Putney Morning
36Chapter 3: An Ambition Satisfied
8Chapter 7: The Confession
37Chapter 4: A Crisis for Gerald
9Chapter 8: An Invasion
38Chapter 5: Fever
10Chapter 9: A Glossy Male
39Chapter 6: The Siege
11Chapter 10: The Secret
40Chapter 7: Success
12Chapter 11: An Escape
41Book iv: What Life is
13Chapter 12: Alice's Performances
42Chapter 1: Frensham’s
14The Old Wives' Tale
43Chapter 2: The Meeting
15Preface to this Edition
44Chapter 3: Towards Hotel Life
16Book i: Mrs. Baines
45Chapter 4: End of Sophia
17Chapter 1: The Square
46Chapter 5: End of Constance
18Chapter 2: The Tooth
47Chapter 1: The Dance
19Chapter 3: A Battle
48Chapter 2: The Widow Hullins's House
20Chapter 4: Elephant
49Chapter 3: The Pantechnicon
21Chapter 5: The Traveller
50Chapter 4: Wrecking of a Life
22Chapter 6: Escapade
51Chapter 5: The Mercantile Marine
23Chapter 7: A Defeat
52Chapter 6: His Burglary
24Book ii: Constance
53Chapter 7: The Rescuer of Dames
25Chapter 1: Revolution
54Chapter 8: Raising a Wigwam
26Chapter 2: Christmas and the Future
55Chapter 9: The Great Newspaper War
27Chapter 3: Cyril
56Chapter 10: His Infamy
28Chapter 4: Crime
57Chapter 11: In the Alps
29Chapter 5: Another Crime
58Chapter 12: The Supreme Honour
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