Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card (3 Classics by Arnold Bennett)
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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.
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Arnold Bennett. Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card (3 Classics by Arnold Bennett)
Buried Alive + The Old Wives' Tale + The Card
Table of Contents
Buried Alive
Chapter 1. The Puce Dressing-gown
Riches and Renown
The Dreadful Secret
Cure for Shyness
Master and Servant
A Month's Wages
Chapter 2. A Pail
Tea
Alice Challice
No Gratuities
Chapter 3. The Photograph
The Nest
Fame
The Ruling Classes
Chapter 4. A Scoop
Cowardice
In the Valhalla
A New Hat
Chapter 5. Alice on Hotels
Difficulty of Truth-telling
Results of Rain
Chapter 6. A Putney Morning
The Simple Joy of Life
Collapse of the Putney System
Chapter 7. The Confession
Tears
A Patron of the Arts
Chapter 8. An Invasion
A Departure
In the Bath
Chapter 9. A Glossy Male
A Connoisseur
Parfitts' Galleries
The Club
Chapter 10. The Secret
Money-getting
A Visit to the Tailors'
Alice on the Situation
Chapter 11. An Escape
The Nation's Curiosity
Mention of Two Moles
Priam's Refusal
Chapter 12. Alice's Performances
The Public Captious
New Evidence
Thoughts on Justice
The Will to Live
On Board
The Old Wives' Tale
Preface to this Edition
Book i. Mrs. Baines
Chapter 1. The Square
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Chapter 2. The Tooth
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Chapter 3. A Battle
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Chapter 4. Elephant
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Chapter 5. The Traveller
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Chapter 6. Escapade
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Chapter 7. A Defeat
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Book ii. Constance
Chapter 1. Revolution
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Chapter 2. Christmas and the Future
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Chapter 3. Cyril
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Chapter 4. Crime
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Chapter 5. Another Crime
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Chapter 6. The Widow
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Chapter 7. Bricks and Mortar
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Chapter 8. The Proudest Mother
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Book iii. Sophia
Chapter 1. The Elopement
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Chapter 2. Supper
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Chapter 3. An Ambition Satisfied
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Chapter 4. A Crisis for Gerald
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Chapter 5. Fever
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Chapter 6. The Siege
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Chapter 7. Success
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Book iv. What Life is
Chapter 1. Frensham’s
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Chapter 2. The Meeting
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Chapter 3. Towards Hotel Life
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Chapter 4. End of Sophia
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Chapter 5. End of Constance
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The Card
Chapter 1. The Dance
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Chapter 2. The Widow Hullins's House
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Chapter 3. The Pantechnicon
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Chapter 4. Wrecking Of A Life
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Chapter 5. The Mercantile Marine
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Chapter 6. His Burglary
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Chapter 7. The Rescuer Of Dames
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Chapter 8. Raising A Wigwam
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Chapter 9. The Great Newspaper War
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Chapter 10. His Infamy
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Chapter 11. In The Alps
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Chapter 12. The Supreme Honour
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