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The Card

The Card

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Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 7 hours and 58 minutes

Language: English

The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened ‘The Five Towns’) of the English Midlands; how, by his own wits, enterprise and ‘nerve’ he rose to wealth, married bliss and public recognition as the youngest-ever mayor of his home town.

“’And yet,’ demanded Councillor Barlow, ‘what’s he done? What great cause is he identified with?
’‘He’s identified,’ said the speaker, ‘with the great cause of cheering us all up’.” (summary by Andy Minter)

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Chapter 1 – The Dance (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 2 – The Widow Hullin’s House (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 3 – The Pantechnicol (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 4 – The Wrecking of a Life (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 5 – The Mercantile Marine (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 6 – His Burglary (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 7 – The Rescuer of Dames (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 8 – Raising a Wigwam (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 9 – The Great Newspaper War (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 10 – His Infamy (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 11 – In the Alps (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
Chapter 12 – The Supreme Honour (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
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