Length10h 42m
About this audiobook
This carefully crafted ebook: "Riceyman Steps (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The story takes place in 1919-1920 and deals with the final year in the life of its main character, Henry Earlforward, a miser, who keeps a second-hand bookshop in the Clerkenwell area of London. Henry marries Violet Arb, a widow who keeps a neighbouring shop, and who sees in Henry a financially secure future. Henry's parsimony drives them into an increasingly wretched existence. Their lives are contrasted to that of their maid servant Elsie Sprickett and it is she, despite her extreme poverty, who brings life and a future to the bittersweet tale. 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
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length10 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 20, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part 1
28Chapter 5 Tea
2Chapter 1 Riceyman steps
29Chapter 6 Evening
3Chapter 2 The customer
30Part 4
4Chapter 3 The bookseller at home
31Chapter 1 At the window
5Chapter 4 Elsie
32Chapter 2 Elsie's motive
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6Chapter 5 The gift
33Chapter 3 Charity
7Chapter 6 Mrs Arb's case
34Chapter 4 No verdict
8Chapter 7 Under an umbrella
35Chapter 5 Midnight
9Chapter 8 The carving-knife
36Chapter 6 Henry's plot
10Chapter 9 Sunday morning
37Chapter 7 The night-call
11Chapter 10 Riceyman Square
38Chapter 8 On the landing
12Chapter 11 Elsie's home
39Chapter 9 Violet's victory
13Chapter 12 The benefactress
40Chapter 10 Departure
14Chapter 13 The passion
41Part 5
15Chapter 14 A man's private life
42Chapter 1 The promise
16Part 2
43Chapter 2 The refusal
17Chapter 1 The day before
44Chapter 3 The message to Violet
18Chapter 2 Elsie's retreat
45Chapter 4 Out of the rain
19Chapter 3 Waxworks
46Chapter 5 The two patients
20Chapter 4 Vacuum
47Chapter 6 The second refusal
21Chapter 5 The priestess
48Chapter 7 Malaria
22Chapter 6 The next day
49Chapter 8 A climax
23Part 3
50Chapter 9 The kiss
24Chapter 1 Early morning
51Chapter 10 The safe
25Chapter 2 After breakfast
52Chapter 11 Prison
26Chapter 3 International
53Chapter 12 Asleep
27Chapter 4 Afternoon
54Chapter 13 Disappearance of T.T's
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