by Arnold Bennett · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140038866
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«These Twain» is Arnold Bennett's realist novel, published by Penguin in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The novel follows Edwin Clayhanger and his wife Hilda during the early years of their marriage in Bursley, with their disagreements, routines and the pressure of social conventions. Bennett thus paints a portrait of the English middle class at the beginning of the 20th century, focused on domestic life and small everyday conflicts.
Third instalment of Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger series. The novel was originally published in 1915; the present edition is from 1976.
For readers of classic British fiction and realist novels that portray everyday life and couple relationships in early 20th-century England.
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.
