The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett - 2007-01-30

George H. Doran Company, 1918-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light soiling. top spine edge tear. Binding loosening slightly but still intact. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardbound. Very Good. NY (Doran) (1918). Cancelled library stamp.Spine faded. Vg.

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931

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MP3 Audio CD. The Pretty Lady Chapter I THE PROMENADE The piece was a West End success so brilliant that even if you belonged to the intellectual despisers of the British theatre you could not hold up your head in the world unless you had seen it; even for such as you it was undeniably a success of curiosity at least. The stage scene flamed extravagantly with crude orange and viridian light, a rectangle of bedazzling illumination; on the boards, in the midst of great width, with great depth behind them and arching height above, tiny squeaking figures ogled the primeval passion in gesture and innuendo. From the arc of the upper circle convergent beams of light pierced through gloom and broke violently on this group of the half-clad lovely and the swathed grotesque. The group did not quail. In fullest publicity it was licensed to say that which in private could not be said where men and women meet, and that which could not be printed. It gave a voice to the silent appeal of pictures and posters and… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett presents the complicated relationship between Christine, a young French prostitute, and Gilbert J. Hoape, a wealthy businessman twice her age, set in the WWI London.The two protagonists meet one evening, when the young pretty woman in search of a client interested in her services is noticed by the man whose age prevented him from enrolling in the army. He accompanies her to a nearby flat that, to his great and pleasant surprise, does not look sordid, as he would expected, but it is cozy, warm and welcoming.As he leaves, Hoape tells Cristine that he had seen her once in Paris, and then followed her for five nights, but he had not dare to approach her or speak to her. The courtesan finds this confession and the fact that he remembered her face after all this time very flattering and hopes that this is not the only time the man seeks her company. She is not wrong.The story of the main characters' relationship is also used as pretext for presenting how… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Pretty Lady Chapter I THE PROMENADE The piece was a West End success so brilliant that even if you belonged to the intellectual despisers of the British theatre you could not hold up your head in the world unless you had seen it; even for such as you it was undeniably a success of curiosity at least. The stage scene flamed extravagantly with crude orange and viridian light, a rectangle of bedazzling illumination; on the boards, in the midst of great width, with great depth behind them and arching height above, tiny squeaking figures ogled the primeval passion in gesture and innuendo. From the arc of the upper circle convergent beams of light pierced through gloom and broke violently on this group of the half-clad lovely and the swathed grotesque. The group did not quail. In fullest publicity it was licensed to say that which in private could not be said where men and women meet, and that which could not be printed. It gave a voice to the silent appeal of pictures and posters and… Read More

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