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Denry The Audacious

Denry The Audacious

Bennett, Arnold

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 9354756484
ISBN13: 9789354756481
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Jul 5 2021
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A comic yet knowing snapshot of small-town ambition in Edwardian Britain, Denry The Audacious invites you to meet a man who barters charm for change and reshapes a social landscape with audacity and wit. This is more than a novel: it is a lucid social comedy that traces ambition and social climbing through everyday gestures, witty sketches, and keen-eyed portraits of middle-class aspiration. Bennett's edge-clear, humane, and sly-draws a vivid map of Edwardian Britain where status, manners, and aspiration collide in rooms, clubs, and parlours. The result is accessible yet morally attentive, blending social realism with a Thackeray-esque satire that is at once affectionate and unsparing. For readers and students of British literature alike, the book works as both story and social document, offering insight into a world just before upheaval, and the enduring pull of character over circumstance. Historically, the title sits alongside a lineage of Savile-era satire and Edwardian social portraiture, signalling Bennett's place in a tradition that shaped modern British fiction. Alpha Editions brings this classic back with care for today's readers and for future generations. It is not merely a reprint; it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, revived for casual readers and for classic-literature collectors who value the quiet drama of social life, the rhythms of British readers, and the enduring craft of a social satire master.

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