The Card (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Arnold Bennett

Overview

Written in 1911, The Card is Bennett’s brilliantly funny short novel that chronicles the rise of the ever-optimistic Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley through luck, initiative and wit, and his greatest asset—a talent for “cheering up” people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411463547
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	01/03/2012
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	241 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.”