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Riceyman Steps

Arnold Bennett

出版	LA CASE Books, 1984
主題	Fiction / World Literature / England / 20th Century
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zobCEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

The story takes place in 1919-1920 and deals with the final year in the life of its main character, Henry Earlforward, a miser, who keeps a second-hand bookshop in the Clerkenwell area of London. Henry marries Violet Arb, a widow who keeps a neighbouring shop, and who sees in Henry a financially secure future. Henry's parsimony drives them into an increasingly wretched existence. Their lives are contrasted to that of their maid servant Elsie Sprickett and it is she, despite her extreme poverty, who brings life and a future to the bittersweet