description: [...]a most important call at Hanbridge, and would I care to go with him in the car? I was and still am convinced that he was simply inventing. He wanted to break the sinister spell by getting out of the house, and he had not the face to suggest a sortie into the streets of the Five Towns as a promenade of pleasure. So we went forth, splashing warily through the rich mud and the dank mist of Trafalgar Road, past all those strange little Indian-red houses, and ragged empty spaces, and poster-hoardings, and rounded kilns, and[...].
language: English
title: The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories (The Collected Works of Arnold Bennett)
genres: 20th Century, Classics, British Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 54
series: The Five Towns
publisher: Ayer Co Pub