These Twain (Unabridged) (Annotated)

In These Twain, Arnold Bennett completes the central movement of the Clayhanger saga by turning from courtship and self-formation to the intricate daily drama of marriage. Set in the industrial "Five Towns" of the Staffordshire Potteries, the novel follows Edwin Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways as affection, pride, memory, class expectation, and sexual reticence test their union. Bennett's prose is p...