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    From One Generation to Another
    From One Generation to Another
    From One Generation to Another
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    From One Generation to Another

    By Arnold Bennett

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    Arnold Bennett, in full Enoch Arnold Bennett (born May 27, 1867, Hanley, Staffordshire, England, died March 27, 1931, London), British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist whose major works form an important link between the English novel and the mainstream of European realism. This is a short humorous story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnna Ruggieri
    Release dateApr 16, 2018
    ISBN9788828306498
    From One Generation to Another
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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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      From One Generation to Another - Arnold Bennett

      FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER

      By

      Arnold Bennett

      First digital edition 2018 by Anna Ruggieri

      FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER

      It is the greatest mistake in the world to imagine that, because the Five Towns is an industrial district devoted to the manufacture of cups and saucers, marbles, and door-knobs, therefore there is no luxury in it. A writer, not yet deceased, who spent two nights there, and wrote four hundred pages about it, has committed himself to the assertion that there are no private carriages in its streets, only perambulators and tram-cars. That writer’s reputation is ruined in the Five Towns. For the Five Towns, although continually complaining of bad times, is immensely wealthy, as well as immensely poor, a country of contrasts, indeed, and private carriages, if they do not abound, exist, at any rate, in sufficient numbers. Nay, more, automobiles of the most expensive French and English makes fly dashingly along its hilly roads and scatter in profusion the rich black mud thereof. On a Saturday afternoon, last spring, such an automobile stood outside the garden entrance of Bleakridge House, just half way between Hanbridge and Bursley. It

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