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RICEYMAN STEPS
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Including "Elsie and the Child" |
| By: |
Arnold Bennett, Professor Edward Mendelson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140182594 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140182590 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
12 December, 1991 |
| Series: |
Penguin Modern Classics 57 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
Elizabeth Bowen Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness, long disguised as procrastination, can become a fatal illness. Bennett's bleak story is saved, however, by the Earlforward's maid Elsie. |
| Synopsis: |
Edited with an Introduction by Edward Mendelson and Robert Squillace - 'The Bennett novels stand up to anything Europe has put out'. Elizabeth Bowen Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness, long disguised as procrastination, can become a fatal illness. Bennett's bleak story is saved, however, by the Earlforward's maid Elsie: buxom, warm, ignorant and sublime in her spontaneous greed for life. "Riceyman Steps" is a modernist masterpiece; a profound psychological and symbolic exploration of the forces of love and death. This edition contains "Riceyman Steps", appearing here in Bennett's corrected version, and its sequel, "Elsie and the Child". |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |