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Grim Smile Of The Five Towns

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five Towns, 1905, available at Librivox.).The five towns of the title are the conurbation of Stoke-on-Trent in which much of the writer's best work is set. Later [than initial] critics have been kinder to the collection's key story, with Margaret Drabble calling "Simon Fuge"... one of the greatest short stories in the English language", and John Wain remarking that... "it says as much as a novel, it says easily as much as a novel of a hundred thousand words could say on this theme" and naming it... "the best thing that Arnold Bennett ever did." The stories exhibit Bennett's usual dry wit and belie the word "grim" in the title. - Summary by David Wales

Year of Publication: 1907Genres: Literary Fiction,Single Author Collections

Running Time: 06 hours 59 minutes 30 seconds(15 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: David Wales

#	Chapter Name
	The Lion's Share David Wales	32:00
	Baby's Bath David Wales	27:56
	The Silent Brothers David Wales	35:07
	The Nineteenth Hat David Wales	18:06
	Vera's First Christmas Adventure David Wales	26:45
	The Murder Of The Mandarin David Wales	27:58
	Vera's Second Christmas Adventure David Wales	27:36
	The Burglary David Wales	27:09
	News Of The Engagement David Wales	12:08
	Beginning The New Year David Wales	18:11
	From One Generation To Another David Wales	25:50
	The Death Of Simon Fuge, Part 1 David Wales	42:44
	The Death Of Simon Fuge, Part 2 David Wales	27:56
	The Death Of Simon Fuge, Part 3 David Wales	58:37
	In A New Bottle David Wales	11:27