by Arnold Bennett · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140182699
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Clayhanger is a novel by Arnold Bennett, published in 1910. The story follows Edwin Clayhanger, a young man growing up in the Midlands of Victorian England. Edwin must abandon his ambitions to be an architect to take over the family printing business. Throughout his life, he confronts the hypocrisies of Victorian society and struggles to find his own path, especially in his relationship with the enigmatic Hilda Lessways. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Andrew Lincoln.
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.
