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One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

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One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 28/07/2016
    ISBN13: 9780241255544, 978-0241255544
    ISBN10: 0241255546

    Number of Pages: 256

    Fiction , Classics

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    One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

    Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.'

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