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The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns

Gelesen von David Wales

(4,615 Sterne; 13 Bewertungen)

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five Towns, 1905, available at Librivox.).The five towns of the title are the conurbation of Stoke-on-Trent in which much of the writer's best work is set. Later [than initial] critics have been kinder to the collection's key story, with Margaret Drabble calling "Simon Fuge"... one of the greatest short stories in the English language", and John Wain remarking that... "it says as much as a novel, it says easily as much as a novel of a hundred thousand words could say on this theme" and naming it... "the best thing that Arnold Bennett ever did." The stories exhibit Bennett's usual dry wit and belie the word "grim" in the title. - Summary by David Wales (6 hr 59 min)

Chapters

The Lion's Share

32:00

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Baby's Bath

27:56

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The Silent Brothers

35:07

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The Nineteenth Hat

18:06

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Vera's First Christmas Adventure

26:45

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The Murder Of The Mandarin

27:58

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Vera's Second Christmas Adventure

27:36

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The Burglary

27:09

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News Of The Engagement

12:08

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Beginning The New Year

18:11

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From One Generation To Another

25:50

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The Death Of Simon Fuge, Part 1

42:44

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The Death Of Simon Fuge, Part 2

27:56

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The Death Of Simon Fuge, Part 3

58:37

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In A New Bottle

11:27

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Bewertungen

good listen

(4,5 Sterne)

really enjoy this as my family come from the 5 towns

the grim smile of the five towns

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