The Plain Man and His Wife

Enoch Arnold Bennett (always known as Arnold Bennett) was one of the most remarkable literary figures of his time, a product of the English Potteries that he made famous as the Five Towns. Yet he could hardly wait to escape his home town, and he did so by the sheer force of his ambition to succeed as an author. In his time he turned his hand to every kind of writing, but he will be remembered for such novels as The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy (Clayhanger, Hilda Lessways, and These Twain), and The Card.
"The Plain Man and His Wife" is a great example of intrigue novel written by David Graham Philips. The novel's plot consists of unexpected twists and somewhere unreachable things. The book is somewhat flawed by Phillips' constant preaching against conventional morality, his flawed observations on the human condition and so forth...