Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The

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What a card! . . . He's a rare 'un, no mistake' Chancer, flirt, wheeler and dealer, Denry Machin knows he is destined for fame. He dances, pleads and cheats his way up the social ladder from washer-woman's son to Mayor, in a series of ludicrous yet surprisingly effective schemes that evoke a long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. Set in Arnold Bennett's smoky, vividly-realized world of the 'Five Towns' of industrial England, The Card is the joyful tall story of a rogue whose every bad deed turns to gold.