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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
The story centers around the life of Priam Farll, a reclusive and shy painter who has achieved immense fame and wealth but struggles with his personal life and social interactions.
"Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days" by Arnold Bennett is a novel. The story centers around the life of Priam Farll, a reclusive and shy painter who has achieved immense fame and wealth but struggles with his personal life and social interactions.
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The peculiar angle of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic--that angle which is chiefly responsible for our geography and therefore for our history--had caused the phenomenon known in London as summer. The whizzing globe happened to have turned its most civilized face away from the sun, thus producing night in Selwood Terrace, South Kensington. In No. 91 Selwood Terrace two lights, on the ground-floor and on the first-floor, were silently proving that man's ingenuity can outwit nature's. No. 91 was one of about ten thousand similar houses between South Kensington Station and North End Road. With its grimy stucco front, its cellar kitchen, its hundred stairs and steps, its perfect inconvenience, and its conscience heavy with the doing to death of sundry general servants, it uplifted tin chimney-cowls to heaven and gloomily awaited the day of judgment for London houses, sublimely ignoring the axial and orbital velocities of the earth and even the reckless flight of the whole solar system through space. You felt that No. 91 was unhappy, and that it could only be rendered happy by a 'To let' standard in its front patch and a 'No bottles' card in its cellar-windows. It possessed neither of these specifics. Though of late generally empty, it was never untenanted. In the entire course of its genteel and commodious career it had never once been to let.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02The Puce Dressing-gown
- 03Riches and Renown
- 04The Dreadful Secret
- 05Cure for Shyness
- 06Master and Servant
- 07A Month's Wages
- 08Chapter II
- 09A Pail
- 10Tea
- 11Alice Challice
- 12No Gratuities
- 13Chapter III
- 14The Photograph
- 15The Nest
- 16Fame
- 17The Ruling Classes
- 18Chapter IV
- 19A Scoop
- 20Cowardice
- 21In the Valhalla
- 22A New Hat
- 23Chapter V
- 24Alice on Hotels
- 25Difficulty of Truth-telling
- 26Results of Rain
- 27Chapter VI
- 28A Putney Morning
- 29The Simple Joy of Life
- 30Collapse of the Putney System
- 31Chapter VII
- 32The Confession
- 33Tears
- 34A Patron of the Arts
- 35Chapter VIII
- 36An Invasion
- 37A Departure
- 38In the Bath
- 39Chapter IX
- 40A Glossy Male
- 41A Connoisseur
- 42Parfitts' Galleries
- 43The Club
- 44Chapter X
- 45The Secret
- 46Money-getting
- 47A Visit to the Tailors'
- 48Alice on the Situation
- 49Chapter XI
- 50An Escape
- 51The Nation's Curiosity
- 52Mention of Two Moles
- 53Priam's Refusal
- 54Chapter XII
- 55Alice's Performances
- 56The Public Captious
- 57New Evidence
- 58Thoughts on Justice
- 59The Will to Live
- 60On Board
About this edition
- Author
- Arnold Bennett
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 228 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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