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Anna lives with her young step-sister, Agnes, and her twice-widowed father, Ephraim Tellwright, in Bursley. Once an active preacher and teacher in the Methodist movement, her father has become a domestic tyrant and, through his miserly attitude to money, a fairly wealthy man.
The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, most recently in 1966, with 4,500 cubic metres per second (160,000 cu ft/s) after rainfall of 437.2 millimetres (17.21 in) in Badia Agnano and 190 millimetres (7.5 in) in Florence, in only 24 hours. [citation needed] Before Pisa, the Arno is crossed by the Imperial Canal at La Botte.
The City of Pleasure: A fantasia on modern themes 1907 1915 First published serially from January 1906 The Statue: 1908 1908 With Philpotts Buried Alive: A tale of these days 1908 1910 The Old Wives' Tale: A novel 1908 1911 The Glimpse: An adventure of the soul 1909 1909 Helen with a High Hand: An idyllic diversion 1910 1910
The industrial district, now city, of Stoke-on-Trent consists of six towns which joined in 1910. The conurbation has become known as "The Five Towns" because of the name given to it by local novelist Arnold Bennett. In his novels, Bennett used mostly recognisable aliases for five of the six towns (although he called Stoke "Knype").
Arnold Bennett was born on 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, now part of Stoke-on-Trent but then a separate town. [1] [2] He was the eldest child of the three sons and three daughters [n 1] of Enoch Bennett (1843–1902) and his wife Sarah Ann, née Longson (1840–1914).
Bottom's Dream (German: Zettels Traum or ZETTEL'S TRAUM as the author wrote the title) is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt.Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger were translating the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. [1]
John Edwin Woods (August 16, 1942 – February 15, 2023) [1] [2] was an American translator who specialized in translating German literature, since about 1978.His work includes much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph Ransmayr.
Map showing Etruria and Etruscan colonies as of 750 BC and as expanded until 500 BC. Etruria (/ ɪ ˈ t r ʊər i ə / ih-TROOR-ee-ə) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, [1] an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria.