Arnold Bennett - Son of Stoke-on-Trent



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Tales of the Five Towns

Tales of the Five Towns
Tales of the Five Towns
- short stories -
1905

"It was an amiable but deceitful afternoon in the third week of December. Snow fell heavily in the windows of confectioners’ shops, and Father Christmas smiled in Keats’s Bazaar the fawning smile of a myth who knows himself to be exploded; but beyond these and similar efforts to remedy the forgetfulness of a careless climate, there was no sign anywhere in the Five Towns, and especially in Bursley, of the immediate approach of the season of peace, goodwill, and gluttony on earth.

At the Tiger, next door to Keats's in the market-place, Mr. Josiah Topham Curtenty had put down his glass (the port was kept specially for him), and told his boon companion, Mr. Gordon, that he must be going. These two men had one powerful sentiment in common: they loved the same woman."

Titles of the stories in Tales of the Five Towns:
  • His worship the Goosedriver.
  • The Elixir of Youth.
  • Mary with the High Hand.
  • The Dog.
  • A Feud.
  • Phantom.
  • Tiddy-Fol-Lol.
  • The Idiot.
  • The Hungarian Rhapsody.
  • The Sisters Qita.
  • Nocturne at the Majestic.
  • Clarice of the Autumn Concerts.
  • A Letter Home.

 



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