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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction

Authors: Arnold Bennett In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Card

Chapter 1 – The Dance
Chapter 2 – The Widow Hullin’s House
Chapter 3 – The Pantechnicol
Chapter 4 – The Wrecking of a Life
Chapter 5 – The Mercantile Marine
Chapter 6 – His Burglary
Chapter 7 – The Rescuer of Dames
Chapter 8 – Raising a Wigwam
Chapter 9 – The Great Newspaper War
Chapter 10 – His Infamy
Chapter 11 – In the Alps
Chapter 12 – The Supreme Honour

The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened ‘The Five Towns’) of the English Midlands; how, by his own wits, enterprise and ‘nerve’ he rose to wealth, married bliss and public recognition as the youngest-ever mayor of his home town.

“’And yet,’ demanded Councillor Barlow, ‘what’s he done? What great cause is he identified with?
’‘He’s identified,’ said the speaker, ‘with the great cause of cheering us all up’.” (summary by Andy Minter)