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A comic yet knowing snapshot of small-town ambition in Edwardian Britain, Denry The Audacious invites you to meet a man who barters charm for change and reshapes a social landscape with audacity and wit.This is more than a novel: ... celý popis
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A comic yet knowing snapshot of small-town ambition in Edwardian Britain, Denry The Audacious invites you to meet a man who barters charm for change and reshapes a social landscape with audacity and wit.
This is more than a novel: it is a lucid social comedy that traces ambition and social climbing through everyday gestures, witty sketches, and keen-eyed portraits of middle-class aspiration. Bennett's edge-clear, humane, and sly-draws a vivid map of Edwardian Britain where status, manners, and aspiration collide in rooms, clubs, and parlours. The result is accessible yet morally attentive, blending social realism with a Thackeray-esque satire that is at once affectionate and unsparing. For readers and students of British literature alike, the book works as both story and social document, offering insight into a world just before upheaval, and the enduring pull of character over circumstance.
Historically, the title sits alongside a lineage of Savile-era satire and Edwardian social portraiture, signalling Bennett's place in a tradition that shaped modern British fiction. Alpha Editions brings this classic back with care for today's readers and for future generations. It is not merely a reprint; it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, revived for casual readers and for classic-literature collectors who value the quiet drama of social life, the rhythms of British readers, and the enduring craft of a social satire master.
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Zařazení knihy Knihy v němčině Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945
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