The_Card_a_Story_of_Adventure_in_the_Five_Towns

作者：Arnold Bennett

播音：佚名

音频：13

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The Card is a short comedic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911, (titled Denry the Audacious in the American edition). 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). This is accomplished through luck, initiative and a fair bit of chutzpah (in slang a card is a ‘character’, an ‘original’; a clever, audacious, person).