The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (Modern Classics)

by Arnold Bennett (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1971

  $3.60

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $4.30

  The pride, pretensions and snobbery of the potteries are handled by Arnold Bennett with amused tolerance. Most of his stories, like the four linked adventures of Vera Cheswardine, set the home life of middle-class manufacturers of earthenware and porcelain against a scenery of coal dust.