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Helen with the High Hand (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Name: Helen with the High Hand (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Author: Arnold Bennett
ISBN: 9781411463578

by Arnold Bennett

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Overview

Originally serialized as The Miser's Niece, Helen with a High Hand was published in book form in 1910. It is a short, comedic novel about a miserly man and his estranged young niece. An enjoyable battle of wills takes place, as both characters scheme to achieve the same outcome. Under his niece's influence, the uncle reluctantly abandons some of his financial prejudices.

About the Author, Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was a British writer whose prolific output included numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, literary criticism as well as theatre journalism, an opera, and a screenplay. English novelist Margaret Drabble says of him, “Bennett’s books I think are very fine indeed, on the highest level, deeply moving… I feel they have been underrated.”