Clayhanger (Twentieth Century Classics)
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Word Count
124,000 words, Guess
Page Count
496 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveclayhanger0000benn_u0i9
- Internet Archiveclayhanger0000benn_n3s4
- ISBN-100140182691
- ISBN-139780140182699
- Goodreads2381866
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- LibraryThing19345
- Better World Books9780140182699
- Open LibraryOL7349620M
Classifications
- LCCPR6003.E6 C53 1989
- LCCPR6019.O9
Description
This coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. Bennett wrote it in 1910 at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, and in Lausanne. Edwin Clayhanger's father, Darius, has risen from an extremely poor background, which Bennett repeatedly returns to, to become a prominent printer in Bursley. Edwin is not aware of his father's history and takes his family's affluence for granted. He allows his ambition to become an architect to be overruled by his father and instead becomes an office junior in his father's business. He sees through the many hypocrisies of Victorian England, but he does not confront them or become his own man until after his father's final illness and death. Then he reopens his relationship with the impoverished but exotic Hilda Lessways. - Wikipedia.
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