[The Five Towns 01] • The Card

Enoch Arnold Bennett was a British novelist.His most famous works are the *Clayhanger* trilogy, *The Card* and *The Old Wives' Tale*. These books draw on his experience of life in the Potteries, as did most of his best work. *The Card* is a short comedic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911. It was later made into a 1952 movie starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley (a fictitious town based on Burslem).