Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 9781537062013 Books
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The novels are a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business, and falls in love. Begun in 1910, written partly at the Royal Albion Hotel,Brighton and in Lausanne. The books are set in Bennett's usual setting of "the 5 Towns", a thinly-disguised version of the six towns of "the Potteries" which amalgamated (at the time of which Bennett was writing) into the borough (and later city) of Stoke-on-Trent. Buildings described in the novels are still identifiable in Burslem (which is the fictional "Bursley"). Clayhanger's father supported his extremely poor family even during his early childhood, and rose to become one of the key men in the "Five Towns". Clayhanger is not fully aware of his father's history, and therefore rather takes for granted much of his family's affluence and influence. Clayhanger allows his ambition to become an architect to be overruled by his domineering father, Darius, and becomes instead an unwilling (and underpaid) office junior in his father's printing business. He does mildly revolt against his father and his family. While he is capable of seeing through the many hypocrisies of Victorian England, he does not confront them or become his own man until his father's final illness and death hand him control of his business. The triumph of the book, then, is not in outlining Edwin's escape from the respectable bourgeoisie, but in detailing its effect on his life, and his submission to it. In one of the earlier chapters in the book, Bennett writes that Edwin had only heard of a philosopher as 'someone who made the best of a bad job' and in some ways that is what Edwin has to do in the book - survive under a stifling layer of conduct imposed by his father, his church and the society he is part of. Although his friendship with the Orgreave family provide intellectual stimulation, they are as much part of 5 Towns life as anyone; this is why Edwin ends up rejecting the unspoken offer of Janet Orgreave as partner, and falls instead for the less attractive, impoverished but exotic Hilda Lessways.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 9781537062013 Books
My high rating for these books does not mean that I recommend them to every avid reader. Those who like the leisurely, sentimental writing style typical of the last half of the 19th century will enjoy them. Their tone is reminiscent of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The stories progress very slowly and end almost back where they started although many years have elapsed.It was an age when a single romantic kiss meant betrothal, when fathers ruled with iron hands, when society was rigidly divided into classes, and women were totally dependent on men for their happiness and wellbeing.
This review pertains to all three of the books of the Clayhanger trilogy. They tell the stories of Edwin, Hilda, and Janet from youth to adulthood and how they cope with the ridged mores, economic hardships, and family obligations of their times. A patient reader will get a very good concept of middle class English society and pictures of the upper and lower classes as well.
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Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 9781537062013 Books Reviews
Well worth reading.
I read Bennett's most famous novel first and am not disappointed in this one. I was particularly pleased to find this is first in a series of four!
A superbly written book. Concerns the life of a man growing up and maturing in late-Victorian working class England, minutely and clearly drawn events, characters, and inner lives. Gives a clear feeling for what life, and dying, was like in that era.
The copy I bought started falling apart almost immediately, however, despite being hardcover.
Superb book, price, and delivery!
Not outstanding, but a very good read. Some oddness in the flow of the story, but I found the development of Edwin's love towards 'the girl' to be touching and highly entertaining. His lack of self-awareness is truly refreshing. Not an old-fashioned plough-of-a-read, but yet another very good Bennett, on the nature of humans. His writings are a treasure.
Arnold Bennett is a Victorian writer who was very popular in his day and still was when I was young. His novel "the Old Wives' Tale" was a classic. I am very glad you are selling very nice, readable reprints of this earlier novel, the first of his
"Five Town" series, set in the English pottery towns during the Industrial Revolution. Years back, probably in Canada, I bought the following 2 books, introducing his heroine Hilda, but nowhere here could I find "Clayhanger", the hero as a boy & young man. Bennett's descriptions of the people and life in these changing towns is lively, amusing, very real. I'm enjoying it very much as a look into an almost forgotten period and wonder why even the libraries no longer have Bennett's novels.
Edwin Clayhanger, is admired and admires while loving and being loved. And yet, there is no resolution but a continuation of the uncertainty of life. I guess I'll have to read all four books of this trilogy...yes, I said four books of the trilogy.
Cliffhanger is 499 pages of possibly the best English writing since Austin or Dickens and at the same time more readable.
My high rating for these books does not mean that I recommend them to every avid reader. Those who like the leisurely, sentimental writing style typical of the last half of the 19th century will enjoy them. Their tone is reminiscent of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. The stories progress very slowly and end almost back where they started although many years have elapsed.
It was an age when a single romantic kiss meant betrothal, when fathers ruled with iron hands, when society was rigidly divided into classes, and women were totally dependent on men for their happiness and wellbeing.
This review pertains to all three of the books of the Clayhanger trilogy. They tell the stories of Edwin, Hilda, and Janet from youth to adulthood and how they cope with the ridged mores, economic hardships, and family obligations of their times. A patient reader will get a very good concept of middle class English society and pictures of the upper and lower classes as well.
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