The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns — Arnold Bennett

Every town should have a ''card'' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh.Bursley in the Five Towns has a ''card'': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he''s thirty, he''s made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursleynever stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?