Home » Riceyman Steps
Product Image

Riceyman Steps

Arnold Bennett
€17.50
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
a little life
a man called ove
A01=Arnold Bennett
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
anna of the five towns
anthony horowitz
anthony william
Author_Arnold Bennett
automatic-update
Category1=Fiction
Category=FA
Category=FBA
chigozie obioma
COP=United Kingdom
david mitchell
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
east of west
east west street
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
evelyn waugh
golden hill francis spufford
graham norton
h g wells
helen dunmore
hillbilly elegy
his bloody project
i am pilgrim
i capture the castle
ian mcewan
Language_English
munich robert harris
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
robert galbraith
softlaunch
terry hayes
the card
the children act
the enchanted april
the lie tree
the prime of miss jean brodie
the woman in cabin 10
thinking fast and slow
tree house
tree of life
william boyd

Product details

  • ISBN 9780241255797
  • Weight: 268g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns
Description

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness becomes a fatal illness and Bennett gives a terrifying description of its ravages. But the book's horrible situation is saved through the character of Elsie - whose life-affirming refusal to engage with the nightmarish world of the bookseller transforms the story.

Bennett wished in Riceyman Steps to create an English novel as powerful as anything by Balzac, the writer he most admired, with the same sense of great human issues being played out within the confines of a household. The result is an unforgettable work which is also a gripping description of the harsh, battered London of the period just after the First World War.
About Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was one of the most versatile, ambitious and successful British novelists of the early 20th century. His novels and short stories both celebrate and deplore a rapidly changing Britain. Much of his greatest work is set where he grew up, in the Potteries of the West Midlands. Inspired by Zola and Maupassant, he realized that this world of brutal industrial work and rapid social change, religious severity and material temptation, was the perfect backdrop for everything from comedy to tragedy. He died of typhoid.

More from this author