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Anna of the Five Towns
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Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, lives in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church. Anna struggles for freedom and independence against her father's restraints, and her inward battle between wanting to please her father and wanting to help Willie Price whose father, Titus Price, committed suicide after falling into bankruptcy and debt.
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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English novelist renowned as a prolific writer throughout his entire career. The most financially successful author of his day, he lent his talents to numerous short stories, plays, newspaper articles, novels, and a daily journal totaling more than one million words.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The books of Arnold Bennett seems curiously neglected these days. I've recently read 'The Card' which I love. In 'Anne Of The Five Towns' Bennett has produced a true tale of pathos. Anne is the eldest daughter of miser Tellwright. On her twenty-first birthday her father hands tells her that she is a rich woman. However her father still firmly controls this legacy so that she cannot do as she wishes with her life. Her life is crossed by two men,one rich and self-assured and the other weak and helpless.She marries the one although she really loves the other.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Early 20th century. After the Trollope book, this is an interesting take on capitalism and class. Also the story of the miser--which is interesting in the context of "Our Mutual Friend" which I'm also reading. Bennett is so much more intense about the issues of class and socialism which come into view in the late Victorian and early 20th century. Also mixes this in with an approach to methodism, religion, and also the potteries. This is a fine book and much of the twentieth rather than the 19th century. (Listened audiobook.)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved this novel because, as I heard somewhere, it raised the ordinary to extraordinary.And that's exactly what makes this a thrilling novel. Nothing exceptional goes on, just what life for a young woman in an industrial village at the end of the XIX century might have been like. Unadorned and real.Anna is an ordinary girl, who leads a simple existence with her tyrannical father and her younger half sister. She performs her duties without complaint, without any fuss or expectations. She is humble and austere and shy and not sure of what religion or love means, even though society imposes them on her. When she turns 21, her oppressive father announces that she 's come into a great inheritance left to her from her deceased mother which makes her a wealthy and eligible woman. But that doesn't change anything, she is still depending on her miserly father.Although Anna consents into everything imposed to her, she kind of starts making her own decisions to thread her future. While receiving constant attention from Henry Mynors, a young promising businessman, who wants to marry her, she can't help thinking of poor and humble Willie Prince, one of her tenants who is in deep debt. Her first own decision might change life as she had known it.The end of the story left me breathless, so many emotions in such a few lines, without great passion, only with open sincerity, only with the pouring hearts of two people who are destined not to be together, and their cold acceptance to take life as it is. Hard, unfair and sad.Great first experience of Bennett's writing. I'll read more by him definitely!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Arnold Bennett has never been particularly fashionable; Virginia Woolf hadn't much time for him (the feeling was mutual) and French critic George Lafourcade describes Anna of the Five Towns as tending to 'dullness complete and unrelieved'. DH Lawrence also responded negatively to the novel, but then again he dismissed 'all the modern stuff since Flaubert'. Margaret Drabble comes closer to my own view of it: she describes Anna as 'much more spirited [than Balzac's Eugenie Grandet], more modern, more subtle. In fact, she is much more real.'It is Anna herself who makes this novel come alive. Early on, Anna learns that her coming-of-age inheritance from her mother makes her a very wealthy young woman. However, the money makes no real difference to her life - it is tied up in stocks, shares and businesses and remains under the control of her tyranical father. The world of finance is utterly alien to Anna. She becomes, on her father's advice, the 'sleeping partner' in the firm owned by Henry Mynors, her soon-to-be fiance. Men, it seems, are destined to hold Anna's pursestrings. On the whole, she doesn't mind: modest Anna's wants are few.Anna is very much her own person, though. She shows this quietly, often with difficulty, such as when she refuses to speak the words 'I am for Christ', which she knows would make Henry and Mrs Sutton (wife of prosperous Alderman Sutton) very happy, because she doesn't feel them in her heart. She risks her father's wrath when she burns the forged document that could have ruined Willie Price, and indeed Anna's father is furious when the deed is discovered, and cannot forgive her.She and Henry are basically 'good' people - quietly so, without ostentation - and there is no reason to suppose that their marriage will be a miserable one, even though Anna realises that she doesn't love Henry and does love the departing (for Australia) Willie Price. If this is, as DH Lawrence claims, a novel about 'resignation', it's a form of resignation that is easy to identify with. Anna is not heroic (except in small, quiet ways); she is a decent, likeable young woman who will make the best of what life throws at her. I find her wholly admirable. [Sept 2004]
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