Anna Of The Five Towns

Arnold Bennett

Kessinger Publishing, Apr 1, 2004 - Fiction - 256 pages

1902. Anna of the Five Towns depicts the severe economic and moral pressures of life in the Staffordshire Potteries in the late nineteenth century. Against the vitality and harshness of the Five Towns, Bennett's narrative is a compelling delineation of his heroine's attempts to gain freedom and independence from her father and the repressive regime of Methodism. This is the first of Bennett's novels to mark out the province of the Five Towns where much of his later fiction is set. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

About the author

Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. He began his working career as a law clerk and later he left the legal field and became an editor for the magazine Woman. His first novel was "A Man from the North." He wrote several novels set in Hanley, the town where he was born. These are known as the Five Town novels. Other titles include "The Babylon Hotel," "The Truth about an Author," and "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day." "The Journal of Arnold Bennett" was published posthumously in three volumes. Bennett died in London of typhoid fever on March 27, 1931.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Anna Of The Five Towns; Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints
• Author: Arnold Bennett
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2004
• ISBN: 1417912243, 9781417912247
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical