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Riceyman Steps(Including 'Elsie And the Child') (Twentieth Century Classics) Book

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.Read More

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    In the work that has been judged the finest of his later novels, (printed here in Bennett's corrected version) Arnold Bennett gives us an unfogettable portrait of a miser and his wife. Henry Earlforward is a second-hand bookseller with a passion for money.

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    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".

  • 0140182594
  • 9780140182590
  • Arnold Bennett, Edward Mendelson
  • 30 September 1999
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
  • New Ed
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