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Mr. Prohack

Arnold Bennett

It follows the life of Arthur Charles Prohack, a middle-class civil servant in London, as he navigates the challenges of post-war life, particularly the financial strains that affect his family.

"Mr. Prohack" by Arnold Bennett is a novel. It follows the life of Arthur Charles Prohack, a middle-class civil servant in London, as he navigates the challenges of post-war life, particularly the financial strains that affect his family.

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Arthur Charles Prohack came downstairs at eight thirty, as usual, and found breakfast ready in the empty dining-room. This pleased him, because there was nothing in life he hated more than to be hurried. For him, hell was a place of which the inhabitants always had an eye on the clock and the clock was always further advanced than they had hoped.

The dining-room, simply furnished with reproductions of chaste Chippendale, and chilled to the uncomfortable low temperature that hardy Britons pretend to enjoy, formed part of an unassailably correct house of mid-Victorian style and antiquity; and the house formed part of an unassailably correct square just behind Hyde Park Gardens. (Taxi-drivers, when told the name of the square, had to reflect for a fifth of a second before they could recall its exact situation.)

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I
  2. 02The New Poor
  3. 03Chapter II
  4. 04From the Dead
  5. 05II
  6. 06Chapter III
  7. 07The Law
  8. 08Chapter IV
  9. 09Eve's Headache
  10. 10Chapter V
  11. 11Charlie
  12. 12Chapter VI
  13. 13Sissie
  14. 14Chapter VII
  15. 15The Sympathetic Quack
  16. 16Chapter VIII
  17. 17Sissie's Business
  18. 18Chapter IX
  19. 19Collision
  20. 20Chapter X
  21. 21The Theory of Idleness
  22. 22Chapter XI
  23. 23Neurasthenia Cured
  24. 24Chapter XII
  25. 25The Practice of Idleness
  26. 26Chapter XIII
  27. 27Further Idleness
  28. 28Chapter XIV
  29. 29End of an Idle Day
  30. 30Chapter XV
  31. 31The Heavy Father
  32. 32Chapter XVI
  33. 33Transfer of Mimi
  34. 34Chapter XVII
  35. 35Romance
  36. 36Chapter XVIII
  37. 37A Homeless Night
  38. 38Chapter XIX
  39. 39The Reception
  40. 40Chapter XX
  41. 41The Silent Tower
  42. 42Chapter XXI
  43. 43Eve's Martyrdom
  44. 44Chapter XXII
  45. 45Mr. Prohack's Triumph
  46. 46Chapter XXIII
  47. 47The Yacht

About this edition

Author
Arnold Bennett
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
474 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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