The Regent
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About This Book
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"The Regent."’ ‘The Regent’ is, if not a sequel to ‘The Card’, then a ‘Further Adventures of’ the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and that he has lost his touch as the entrepreneur and entertainer of the ‘Five Towns’. In fact, as he says to himself ‘What I want is change - and a lot of it too!’. A chance meeting at the local theatre leads to his going to London and then... Enoch Arnold Bennett (always k...
Chapters (88)
- THE REGENT
- A FIVE TOWNS STORY OF ADVENTURE IN LONDON BY
- ARNOLD BENNETT
- 1913
- CONTENTS
- THE REGENT
- PART I
- CHAPTER I
- DOG-BITE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER II
- THE BANK-NOTE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER III
- WILKINS'S
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER IV
- ENTRY INTO THE THEATRICAL WORLD
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER V
- MR SACHS TALKS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER VI
- LORD WOLDO AND LADY WOLDO
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- PART II
- CHAPTER VII
- CORNER-STONE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- CHAPTER VIII
- DEALING WITH ELSIE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- CHAPTER IX
- THE FIRST NIGHT
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- CHAPTER X
- ISABEL
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
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