"All of Mr. Morrison's work deserves the recognition it has attained, but this is undoubtedly the most artistic, the most virile, and the most heartrendingly true."—Baltimore Sun.
$1.50
McClure, Phillips & Co.
By Arnold Bennett
Author of "The Great Babylon Hotel"
ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS
Probably no story of the year is so simply and yet so artistically told as this one. It portrays the development of a sweet and natural girl's character, amid a community of strict Wesleyan Methodists in a Staffordshire town. How her upright nature progresses with constant rebellions against the hypocrisy and cant of the religionists, by whom she is surrounded, is brought out by the author faithfully and with great delicacy of insight. Many will love Anna, and not a few will find something in her to suggest "Tess of the Durbervilles." The plot is extremely simple, but the reader will find a surprise in the last chapters.
The English letter from W. L. Alden, in the New York Times Review says:
"It will be promptly recognized by the critics whose opinion is worth something as the most artistic story of the year."
Cloth. 12mo $1.50