Bennett, Harold, ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS

Bennett, Harold

ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS, Wordsworth Editions, Ware, 1995  (repr.).

In-8º, de XXVIII-227 pp., brochado.  Tem introdução e edição de Margaret Harris.  Em Inglês.

“In Anna of the Five Towns (1902) Arnold Bennett depicts the severe economic and moral pressures of life in the Potteries in the late nineteenth century, as they affect the emotional fortunes of his heroine.  (…)

This was the first of Bennett’s novels to mark out the province of the Five Towns where much of his later fiction is set.  Drawing on his boyhood experience of the Strattfordshire Potteries area, he shows both the vitality and the harshness of life in the community.  Yet although the events of the novel — including suicide and embezzlement — are sensational, the narrative is restrained and compelling in his delineation of Anna’s attempts to gain freedom and independence.”  (from the backcover)

Obra adaptada pela BBC, onde passou seriada em 4 episódios, foi também encenada em 2017 no teatro;  a apresentação aqui:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxvC4iePWKc 

Sobre Harold Bennett (Hanley, 1867-1931) ver:  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arnold-Bennett 

Dim.:  19 x 11,5  cm