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Arnold Bennett's Uncollected Short Stories 1892 - 1932
Arnold Bennett's Uncollected Short Stories 1892 to 1932
Edited by John Shapcott
448 pages
Size: 19.2cm x 12.8cm x 3.8cm
Published together for the first time, these magazine short stories are a valuable and entertaining addition to the Arnold Bennett output displaying a treasure trove of Bennett nuggets taken from the Golden Age of magazine short stories.
Spanning 40 years from the autumn of a Victorian Britain to the pre-war Britain of the 1930s whilst it was in depths of depression, they allow us to travel from the capital, London upto the Potteries, then onto the peninsula of Cornwall. As we move cross country we read of lost love, ghostly mysteries, terrorist plots, murder, marital discord, war-time profiteering, social high-jinks, romance – the whole range of life as seen through the eyes of Bennett
Published by Churnet Valley Books.