British author Arnold Bennett returns to his native stomping grounds—the Potteries district of England's West Midlands region—with this collection of insightful, darkly witty stories about the denizens of the fictionalized "Five Towns." From love gone wrong to mischief and misadventure, these sharply drawn tales run the gamut.
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