THE CARD: A STORY OF MISADVENTURE IN THE FIVE TOWNS

By Arnold Bennett

Synopsis

Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

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Narrator Tony Pearce-Smith
Length 10hrs
Catalogue No. 15280
Publisher Penguin; 2016
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