Riceyman Steps

A middle-aged bookshop proprietor marries a widowed shopkeeper, but their chance for late-in-life happiness is threatened by his obsessive miserliness. Winner of the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

British novelist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) is best known for his series of novels set in the "Five Towns," a thinly fictionalized version of the Potteries, the Staffordshire region where he grew up. He was also a playwright and journalist, and during World War I he served as Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information.