Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776588916
• Edition: 0

Author Arnold Bennett spent his early life in the Potteries district of England, an area known for its cluster of ceramics manufacturing facilities. In this charming volume of short stories, Bennett offers readers a glimpse into the lives, loves, and misadventures of the residents of the fictionalized version of the region that he christened the "e;Five Towns."e;

Table of contents

• THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS AND OTHER STORIES
• Contents
• The Matador of the Five Towns
• Mimi
• The Supreme Illusion
• The Letter and the Lie
• Jock-at-a-Venture
• The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
• Under the Clock
• Three Episodes in the Life of Mr Cowlishaw, Dentist
• Catching the Train
• The Widow of the Balcony
• The Cat and Cupid
• The Fortune Teller
• The Long-Lost Uncle
• The Tight Hand
• Why the Clock Stopped
• Hot Potatoes
• Half-a-Sovereign
• The Blue Suit
• The Tiger and the Baby
• The Revolver
• An Unfair Advantage
• Endnotes