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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett is a timeless popular classic, originally published in 1902. It tells the story of Anna Tellwright, a strong-willed, independent woman living in the five small towns of the Potteries district in England. Anna struggles against the societal... Read Full Overview

Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works. Plot summary The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her... Read Full Overview

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel temper. His daughter, Anna, is used to the life of strict, thrifty order imposed by her father. But when she comes of age, Anna inherits a small fortune... Read Full Overview

'Deeply moving, original, and dealing with material that I had never encountered in fiction, but only in life' Margaret Drabble

Both have as a central character a young girl dominated by a miserly father; both women are wooed for their money, fall in love unsuitably and courageously defy their parents.

What would you do if your money-grubbing father decided to marry you off to someone you loathed, against your express wishes? That's precisely the dilemma facing virtuous Anna Tellwright in Arnold Bennett's juicy potboiler Anna of the Five Towns. Will Anna muster up the courage... Read Full Overview

Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works.Anna lives with her young step-sister Agnes and her twice-widowed father, Ephraim Tellwright, in Bursley. The latter, once an active preacher and teacher in the Methodist... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are... Read Full Overview

Arnold Bennett's classic novel is a brilliantly perceptive study of provincial life in Victorian England, touching on many of the themes so closely associated with the era.Presided over by a tyrannical and ruthless father, Anna is courted by the handsome but ambitious Henry Mynors... Read Full Overview

Anna and her half-sister Agnes grow up unloved by their strict father, Ephraim Tellwright, a wealthy miser and a rigid Methodist. Anna dutifully allows her father to manage her inheritance, a fortune that attracts a marriage proposal from Henry Mynors, a religion teacher with... Read Full Overview