The Roll-Call (Unabridged) (Annotated)

The Roll-Call (Unabridged) extends Arnold Bennett's great Clayhanger sequence into the troubled modernity of the First World War, following George Cannon as he moves through artistic ambition, professional formation, love, and military obligation. Bennett's prose is characteristically exact: patient in its social observation, alert to money, class, interiors, habits, and the moral pressure of ordi...