Stories From The Five Towns

Stories From The Five Towns

by Arnold Bennett

2.96 out of 5 (36 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
64 
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 
Publication Date:
20 December 2007 
Category:
Books 
ISBN:
9780194790727 

Description

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds.

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  • The genre of this book is human interest. I chose this book because I read one of the story in the class.All story in this book are really interesting but I think the most interesting story is the second;The Burglary.Sir Jehoshaphat does'nt like the portrait so he ask the burglar to steal it from his house.This story seem ironical for me so I like this story very much.

    4.50 out of 5

    KURUMI

  • John and Robert is brother.But they don't speak each other.There older sister died three month ago.She left will and this wii makes new problem.This is very funny story.Both brother are adults but they look like children.The quarral doesn't make anything.Regret is always too late.

    4.50 out of 5

    aruasifu

  • This book contains four stories,so each story is very short.My favorite story is third one which is gentre romance.Every stories have nice humor,so I enjoyed reading them.Two stories are interesting and the others are hot stories.I often read horror story but this book's stories are good ones!

    4.00 out of 5

    yukimaruge

  • This book has 4 stories.These stories are from Five Towns,the city of Stoke-on-Trent which is famous for its pottery.First:NEWS OF THE ENGAGEMENTA man went home to meet his mother and tell her the news of his engagement.But there was his mother's old friend, Philip Nixon at the house.Philip is a...Second:THE BURGLARYSir Jehoshaphat Dain was a rich man who has one of the biggest pottery factories in England.He used some of his money to pay for schools and hospitals in the Five towns.So the people of the Five Towns wanted to say thank you and decided to give him a portrait for a present.But he wanted to get rid of it and...Third:BEGINNING THE NEW YEARToby Hall missed the train to Turnhill and was left at Knype station.At Knype,there was a Prisilla Bratt,his wife he had not met.He went to meet her...Fourth:THE SILENT BROTHERSJohn and Robert Hessian were brothers and bachelors.Ten years before,they had a stupid quarrel and since,then they had not spoken to each other.One day,their friend brought a will of their old sister who had died for three years.The will say...These stories have the funny ones and the ones which warm my heart.At first,I was not interested in these story,but I could read them pleasantly.I found that I like human interest stories!

    4.00 out of 5

    xorangex

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