Anna of the Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett

Book Overview

'Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life' Margaret Drabble Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853262242
• ISBN13: 9781853262241
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

The crushing of Anna Tellwright

When Anna turns 18, she inherits a large sum of money (and property) from her dead mother. Her miserly and cruel father discourages her from spending a penny of it and even forces her to extract high rents from her tenants. As if this weren't enough trouble, she falls in love with Harry Mynors who is only interested in her money. When she realizes this, she has become so used to this kind of treatment that she decides to marry him anyway. Naturalistic and depressing, Bennett portrays his main characters well. Poor Anna--you really feel for her by the end of the book.