Clayhanger - Classic Reprint Author:Arnold Bennett CHAPTER I THE LAST OF A SCHOOLBOY I EDWIN CLAYHANGER stood on the steep-sloping, red-bricked canal bridge, in the valley between Bursley and its suburb Hillport. In that neighbourhood the Knype and Mersey canal formed the western boundary of the industrialism of the Five Towns. To the east rose pitheads, chimneys, and kilns, tier above tier, dim... more » in their own mists. To the west, Hillport Fields, grimed but possessing authentic hedgerows and winding paths, mounted broadly up to the sharp ridge on which stood Hillport Church, a landmark. Beyond the ridge, and partly protected by it from the driving smoke of the Five Towns, lay the fine and ancient Tory borough of Oldcastle, from whose historic Middle School Edwin Clayhanger was now walking home. The fine and ancient Tory borough provided education for the whole of the Five Towns, but the relentless ignorance of its prejudices had blighted the district. A hundred years earlier the canal had only been obtained after a vicious Parliamentar
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CONTENTS; BOOK I HIS VOCATION; CHAT; I THE LAST OF A SCHOOLBOY II THE FLAME ; III ENTRY INTO THE WORLD; IV THE CHILD-MAN V MR SHUSHIONS'S TEAR EXPLAINED; VI IN THE HOUSE VII AUNTIE HAMFS ; VIII IN THE SHOP ; IX THE TOWN ; X FREE AND EASY XI SON AND FATHER XII MACHINERY ; XIII ONE RESULT OF COURAGE; XIV THE ARCHITECT XV A DECISION ; XVI THE LETTER XVII END OF A STRUGGLE; BOOK II HIS LOVE; I THE VISIT ; II FATHER AND SON AFTER SEVEN YEARS; III THE NEW HOUSE; IV THE TWO GARDENS; V CLOTHES
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