The Complete Five Towns Collections. Bennett Arnold
Читать онлайн.| Название | The Complete Five Towns Collections |
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| Автор произведения | Bennett Arnold |
| Жанр | Языкознание |
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| isbn | 4057664560889 |
Arnold Bennett
The Complete Five Towns Collections
A Man from the North, Anna of the Five Towns, Tales of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale…
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2019 OK Publishing
EAN 4057664560889
Table of Contents
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
A Man from the North
Chapter I
There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. The metropolis, and everything that appertains to it, that comes down from it, that goes up into it, has for him an imperious fascination. Long before schooldays are over he learns to take a doleful pleasure in watching the exit of the London train from the railway station. He stands by the hot engine and envies the very stoker. Gazing curiously into the carriages, he wonders that men and women who in a few hours will be treading streets called Piccadilly and the Strand can contemplate the immediate future with so much apparent calmness; some of them even have the audacity to look bored. He finds it difficult to keep from throwing himself in the guard's van as it glides past him; and not until the last coach is a speck upon the distance does he turn away and, nodding absently to the ticket-clerk, who knows him well, go home to nurse a vague ambition and dream of Town.
London is the place where newspapers are issued, books written, and plays performed. And this youth, who now sits in an office, reads all the newspapers. He knows exactly when a new work by a famous author should appear, and