Buried Alive (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Arnold Bennett

Overview

An ingenious satire, Buried Alive (1908) is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story a renowned but exceedingly shy painter, Priam Farll, who assumes the identity of his dead valet, Henry Leek, as a means of avoiding press attention.   The novel was enormously successful as a play, retitled The Great Adventure,  and later as the film Holy Matrimony.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411463530
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	12/19/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	332 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was a British writer whose prolific output included numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, literary criticism as well as theatre journalism, an opera, and a screenplay. English novelist Margaret Drabble says of him, “Bennett’s books I think are very fine indeed, on the highest level, deeply moving… I feel they have been underrated.”