The Five Towns Series (Annotated)

Arnold Bennett's The Five Towns Series transforms the industrial Staffordshire Potteries into one of the most fully realized provincial worlds in English fiction. Across its interlinked novels and tales, Bennett portrays Bursley, Hanbridge, Knype, Longshaw, and Turnhill as places of commerce, inheritance, ambition, repression, and intimate moral drama. His style combines Edwardian realism with a B...