TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Arnold TI - The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns AV - PR PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - City and town life -- Fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Staffordshire (England) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Card; Release date is 2004-07-22; Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Carol David and PG Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns" by Arnold Bennett is a comic novel written in 1911. It follows Edward Henry "Denry" Machin's audacious rise from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley in the Staffordshire Potteries. Through cheek, luck, and initiative, Denry schemes his way upward—altering test scores, crashing exclusive balls, profiting from shipwrecks, and launching a thrift club. His colorful adventures and irrepressible charm make him the town's most beloved "card"—a character who specializes in cheering everyone up. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12986 ER -