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One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Card
• Author: Arnold Bennett
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780241255544
• ISBN: 0241255546
• ID: 02963728
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 194 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 198 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. July 2016

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