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Riceyman Steps

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Riceyman Steps

By Arnold Bennett

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About the book

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 a...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780241255797

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Riceyman Steps

Format

Paperback

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