title: Books and persons;: Being comments on a past epoch, 1908-1911
author:  Arnold Bennett 
description: Reprint of the 1917 first edition. xii, 337+ 1 pages. cloth.. 8vo..
zlib_text: ![](Images/image00138.jpeg)
  
  > Arnold Bennett
  
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  THE CARD
  
   _A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns_
  
  ![](Images/image00133.jpeg)
  
  Contents
  
  > > 1\. The Dance
  
  > > 2\. The Widow Hullins’s House
  
  > > 3\. The Pantechnicon
  
  > > 4\. Wrecking of a Life
  
  > > 5\. The Mercantile Marine
  
  > > 6\. His Burglary
  
  > > 7\. The Rescuer of Dames
  
  > > 8\. Raising a Wigwam
  
  > > 9\. The Great Newspaper War
  
  > > 10\. His Infamy
  
  > > 11\. In the Alps
  
  > > 12\. The Supreme Honour
  
  > > Follow Penguin
  
  PENGUIN BOOKS
  
  THE CARD
  
  Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was one of the most versatile, ambitious and
  successful British novelists of the early twentieth century. His novels and
  short stories both celebrate and deplore a rapidly changing Britain. Much of
  his greatest work is set where he grew up, in the Potteries of the West
  Midlands. Inspired by Zola and Maupassant, he realized that this world of
  brutal industrial work and rapid social change, religious severity and
  material temptation, was the perfect backdrop