# The Card

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- Book: [The Card](https://www.bookquiver.com/arnold-bennett/the-card) ([The Card.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arnold-bennett/the-card.md))
- Authors: [Arnold Bennett](https://www.bookquiver.com/arnold-bennett)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-554-4
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2016-07-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells the extremely funny and tangled story of Denry Machin's rise from mediocrity to fame through a series of ludicrous and yet perversely successful schemes. He dances, pleads, cheats and inspires his way through life in a series of set-pieces which wonderfully evoke a now long-gone world of civic balls, seaside excursions, newspaper boys and patent chocolate remedies. As everybody said after one of his most stylish coups, Denry 'was not simply a card; he was the card.