The Regent

Author(s): Arnold Bennett

Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Narrators: Andy Minter (1934-2017)

Number of Chapters: 10

Length: 9 hours and 06 minutes

Language: English

'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.

Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and that he has lost his touch as the entrepreneur and entertainer of the 'Five Towns'.

In fact, as he says to himself 'What I want is change - and a lot of it too!'. A chance meeting at the local theatre leads to his going to London and then... (Summary by A.J.M.)